Antonyms for abc
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ey-bee-see |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪˌbiˈsi |
Definition of abc
Origin :- "the alphabet," late 13c., abece. Sense "rudiments or fundamentals (of a subject)" is from late 14c. From 1944 (in a "Billboard" headline) as a shortening of American Broadcasting Company. Related: ABCs.
- As in particular : noun detail
- As in basics : noun fundamentals
- Much better just pound away at the ABC and simple arithmetic and so on.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- Triliteral and Multiliteral Propositions (such as “All abc are de”).
- Extract from : « Symbolic Logic » by Lewis Carroll
- There exists a plane ABC, which does not contain all the points.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 » by Various
- Not that in all circles the radii are equal, but only that they are so in the circle ABC.
- Extract from : « A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive » by John Stuart Mill
- Slavery was a terra incognito to him then, a book of which he had not learned the ABC.
- Extract from : « William Lloyd Garrison » by Archibald H. Grimke
- But there's one thing I can do, fellows, from abc up to xyz, and that's write.
- Extract from : « Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed » by Edna Ferber
- But there were all the little tiers, and the ABC's, and the faces and fingers.
- Extract from : « A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. » by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
- This is a better plan than that followed by some textbook writers of imagining ⧍ABC taken up and laid down on itself.
- Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith
- B clamps his instrument and reads off the angle ABC, and the time observer begins to note the time of transit.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1 » by Various
- My third master's children learned me my ABC's in slavery times.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 » by Work Projects Administration
Synonyms for abc
- ABC's
- article
- bottom line
- brass tacks
- case
- chapter and verse
- circumstance
- clue
- cue
- element
- elements
- essentials
- fact
- facts of life
- feature
- first steps
- foundation
- gospel
- item
- know
- lowdown
- nitty-gritty
- nuts and bolts
- picture
- point
- principles
- rudiments
- rundown
- scoop
- score
- speciality
- specific
- specification
- story
- the three R's
- thing
- what's what
- whole story
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