Rattlesnake population shrinking, but sightings in Alabama are still common. Lying on my belly, staring into the face of a timber rattler as he reared up and began buzzing his tail, the last thing I wanted to do was get any closer.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms: 1  plan, program, programme(noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished. 2  program, programme(noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need. 3  broadcast, program, programme(noun) a radio or television show.
Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations. (Note that abbreviations include shortened words like esp. for especially as well as shortened phrases.). Summing up: 1  An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase.2  An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word. 3  An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms). An acronym whose letters spell a word meaningful in the context of the term it stands for is called an apronym. ( 2 For example, BASIC, which stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a very simple programming language.).