ABC

Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical, the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.

Adjective

  1. Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical, the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.

    Synonyms: NBC

  2. Initialism of already been chewed.
    • She'd chew the gum until she was finished with it for the day and store it in a tiny box in the refrigerator until she wanted another chew. If I accidentally threw out her gum, she was able to find someone else's ABC...
  3. Initialism of activated B-cell-like.

Origin

Initialisms.

Related

CBRN GCB

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of American Broadcasting Company, an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.
    • “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program. - 2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump...
  2. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
    • One of the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah party was likely a Muslim man of Pakistani origin, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News. The man's name is Naveed Akram,...
  3. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company.
  4. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
  5. Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
  6. Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China.
  7. Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
  8. Initialism of Aerated Bread Company, which ran a network of shops and cafeterias.
    • It was not worth while to go back to Barnes for the interval between the closing of the Museum and his meal in an ABC shop, and the time hung heavily on his hands. - 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human...
    • He turned into an A.B.C. shop and ordered eggs and bacon and coffee. - 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:

    Related: A.B.C.

  9. Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.
  10. Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.
    • The first was the Asian Games, held every 4 years, and the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC), held every 2 years. - 2013 August 10, Gilas Pilipinas, “Looking back: When PH ruled Asian basketball”, in Rappler:
    • The most memorable championship of his life, the 1967 ABC (now Fiba Asia), was also the most dramatic for the Philippines in the entire 1960s. - 2017 January 15, Ray Roquero, “Hero of '67 ABC”, in Business Mirror:
    • The now FIBA Asia Cup was previously called as the FIBA Asia Championships and the older Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championships. - 2017 August 16, “Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown”, in Asia...
  11. Initialism of American Bowling Congress.
  12. Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America.
    • ABC countries

Related

ABC Islands ABC island ABC party NBC CBS PBS NPR IFABC their ABC

Noun emergency medicine, medicine

  1. Initialism of airway, breathing and circulation, the essential steps in the immediate assessment and treatment of critically ill or injured patients.
    • I run my hands over his chest, assessing his ABCs: airway, breathing, circulation. - 2015, Marcia Wells, Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery in Mayan Mexico, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 180:

    Coordinate Terms: ABCD CAB

  2. Initialism of alcoholic beverage control.
    • Pennsylvania is one of 18 alcoholic beverage control states, commonly known as “ABC states.” In an ABC state, the state government controls the sale and distribution of various alcoholic beverages, depending on state...
  3. Initialism of American-born Chinese.
    • Everyone was Chinese. Some of the students were ABCs. That means "American-born Chinese." Others were FOBs. FOB means "fresh off the boat" and it is a bad insult. I didn't feel prejudiced about the FOBs because I was...

    Coordinate Terms: CBC

  4. Initialism of Australian-born Chinese.
    • Many argue, with justice, that the differences between the various groups of Chinese-Australians are such that it is impossible to speak in terms of a "cultural identity" common to them all (Ang 2001). On the other...
  5. Initialism of activity-based costing.
    • Activity-based costing is a powerful control tool. With ABC, the manager can access all departments and monitor the costs associated with any activity he or she wants to control. - 2008, Gary Dessler, Jean Phillips,...
  6. Initialism of advance base camp.
    • Boga and Subhash with Sherpa Nim Dorje and Kedar Singh left early to open a route to advance base camp. […] They proceeded south along the left bank of the glacier. They could avoid the moraines by climbing the slopes...
  7. Initialism of ATP-binding cassette.
    • ABC transporter
    • ABC-transporters are multispan membrane proteins that mediate the active uptake or efflux of specific substrates across various biological membrane systems. A functional ABC-transporter protein usually consists of two...
  8. Initialism of antigen-binding capacity.
  9. Initialism of age-associated B cell.
    • Together, these findings indicate that CD21/35⁻CD23⁻ B cells do not correspond to any previously defined B-cell subset, but share some characteristics with exhausted B cells. Because they emerge and may eventually...
  10. Initialism of aneurysmal bone cyst.
    • In the long bones, spine, and flat bones, the majority of aneurysmal bone cysts (ABCs) are eccentrically located whereas in the short tubular bones they are usually central in location. […] About 15% of all giant cell...
  11. Initialism of adenoid basal cell carcinoma.
  12. Abbreviation of abacavir.

Forms

ABCs

Derived

ABC transporter ABC exporter

Noun US, countable

  1. The English alphabet.
    • Do you know your ABC? (US: Do you know your ABCs?)

    Synonyms: absey alphabet

  2. A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
  3. A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
  4. The fundamentals of any subject.
    • the ABC of finance
    • This was the Alma Mater of the Brigade, where it learned its A B C of military tactics. - 1866, D. P. Conyngham, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns: With Some Account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the...
    • At the same time I was endeavoring to learn the a-b-c of farming. It is not the kind of thing that is easily learned from books. - 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published...

    Synonyms: basics fundamentals alphabet

  5. A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
  6. A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
    • "That will do. How are the trains for Netherhempsfield?" Greatorex put down the notebook and took up an "ABC." - 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:
    • For this reason his heart sank when, emerging from his study into the great hall at quarter to eleven, he met Beaver already dressed and prepared to be entertained; it was only a momentary vexation, however, for while...
  7. Ellipsis of ABC store.

Origin

From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.

Forms

ABCs ABC's absey

Related

abecedarium abjad alphabet bopomofo futhark futhorc

Derived

ABC book ABC guide easy as ABC

Noun computing, engineering

  1. A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.

Origin

Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.

Forms

ABCD ABCDE

Phrase

  1. Initialism of anything but Chardonnay, a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
    • He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!” ¶ “ABC” threw my...
  2. Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
    • A final example of the iatrogenic effects of international public interventions is the impact on condom use that resulted from the “ABC” (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Use Condoms) approach to AIDS prevention, which has...
  3. Initialism of always be charging, a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.
  4. Initialism of anything but Conservative.