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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    raspberry tart (fart; more commonly, the derisive sound made with the tongue and lips; a Bronx cheer) rasp raspberry Rasta Rastafarian Reb Rebel (i.e., Confederate) rec recreation (all capital) record recon, reccy reconnaissance ref referee reference reg registration (UK: / ˈ r ɛ dʒ /, of a motor vehicle) regulation / ˈ r ɛ ɡ / rehab ...

  3. List of short fiction made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

  4. Short film - Wikipedia

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    Salah Zulfikar (left) and Geraldine Chaplin in Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973), a film with a 30-minute running time. A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". [1]

  5. Women's cinema - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer filmmakers Josefina Molina, Helena Cortesina, Rosario Pi were among the first women film directors of Spain. María Forteza was the first woman director of a sound picture in 1934 with the short film documentary Mallorca. Ana Mariscal was a prolific actress in the 1940s and 1950s. In the early 1950s she became a producer and shortly ...

  6. Chick lit - Wikipedia

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    "Chick" is American slang for a young woman, and "lit" is a shortened form of the word "literature." There was probably no single origin of the term: Princeton University students were reported in 1988 to use chick lit as slang for a course on the Female Literary Tradition [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and, in the UK, Oxford Reference report that the term ...

  7. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.

  8. List of independent short films - Wikipedia

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    Short Central - Collection of award-winning short films; 4Filmmaking.com - Detailed articles on producing short films. Shortfilmcentral.com - International database of short films, festivals and events, filmmakers and companies involved with short films. kondatam.com - Curated and categorized Tamil short films

  9. Abridgement - Wikipedia

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    An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source. [1] The abridgement can be true to the original work in terms of mood and tone, capturing the parts the abridging author perceives to be most important; it could be a complete parody of the original or it could fall anywhere in between ...