abridgements
Cuts for brevity
Abridgements is the plural of abridgement, a shortened version of a text that preserves the essential content: The library carried abridgements of the classics for younger readers.
An abridgement condenses by cutting rather than summarizing—the original words remain, just fewer of them.
Also spelled abridgments.
Vapor turning to liquid
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
- synopsisCondensed version of content
- epitomePerfect representative of type
compendium · anthologies · excerpts · redactions · cliff notes · précis · abstracts · briefs
Fitting to new conditions
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- shortened versionReduced form of original
- stage adaptationWork reimagined for theater
- running timeProgram's total duration
Act of reducing scope
- restrictionLimit on action
- limitationBound on extent
- reductionMaking something smaller
- diminutionReduction in size
infringement · civil liberties · due process · First Amendment · censorship · suppression · constraint · narrowing
condensation
Vapor turning to liquid
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
- synopsisCondensed version of content
epitome · compendium · anthologies · excerpts · redactions · cliff notes · précis · abstracts · briefs · outlines
adaptation
Fitting to new conditions
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- shortened versionReduced form of original
- stage adaptationWork reimagined for theater
curtailment
Act of reducing scope
- restrictionLimit on action
- limitationBound on extent
- reductionMaking something smaller
diminution · infringement · civil liberties · due process · First Amendment · censorship · suppression · constraint · narrowing · contraction
abridgementscomplete editions
Publications with nothing omitted
complete works · originals · director's cuts · extended editions · totalities
abridgementsexpansions
Increases in size
elaborations · amplifications · extensions · enlargements · augmentations