| Subject | English | Thesaurus |
| abbr. | A document used to tag and accompany material as it moves through receiving dispositions or production operations and work centers, that identifies the items, quantities and order number involved | traveler (свод документов Olessya.85) |
| abbr., avia. | A Line Maintenance Breakdown Part is a sub-component of an LRU Line Replaceable Unit which may be replaced without removing the LRU from the aircraft. Depending on its complexity, an LMP can be repairable or expendable. | LMP (geseb) |
| abbr., black.sl. | 3)A little boy who is scared of his emotions. A boy that disrespects females on a daily basis. A boy who lets others mold him instead of standing on his own. A boy who thinks he's a man but does nothing to earn the title. | bitch-ass nigga (andreon) |
| abbr., avia. | A maneuver, executed from an offensive position, used to preserve nose-tail separation and a positional advantage for future maneuvering when presented with an impending flight path overshoot or to counter a reversal attempt by the defender | quarter plane maneuver (An aggressive, exaggerated rolling pull out of the bandit's plane of motion at close range to reposition the attacker's lift vector at least 90 degrees away from the bandit's plane of motion. This maneuver is often performed instead of a high yo-yo when the attacker realizes too late how quickly the aspect is increasing) |
| abbr., slang | a moving or stationary visual element of a film, video, television broadcast, or print publication that is disproportionately expensive to produce and/or is perceived as essential to the overall importance or revenue-generating potential of the work | money shot (Merithiam) |
| abbr., comp. | A term that combines two words to describe "teenagers who are online" and who are "always looking at the screen." | screenagers (Franka_LV) |
| abbr., law | accessory at the fact | accessory during the fact |
| energ.ind., abbr. | Advisory Committee on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material | ASTRAM |
| mil., abbr. | Agency for the Coordination of Inland Surface Transport in Central Europe | ACTICE |
| mil., abbr. | Agency for the Coordination of Inland Surface Transport in Southern Europe | ACTISUD |
| mil., abbr. | Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil-Military Affairs | ASA |
| busin., abbr. | At The Threshold | ATT |
| abbr., transp. | Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail | ADG (Палачах) |
| mil., abbr. | Authority for the Co-ordination of Inland Transport in Central Europe | ACTICE |
| auto. | 4-channel ABS with individual sensors on the brake actuators of each road wheel | 4-Channel ABS (MichaelBurov) |
| transp., abbr. | Committee of Experts On the Transport of Dangerous Goods of the United Nations Economic and Social Council | ECOSOC |
| abbr. | Contents of the Address part of the Register | CAR (LISP) |
| abbr. | Contents of the Decrement part of the Register | CDR (LISP) |
| abbr., transp. | Convention on the International Transport of Goods Under Cover of TIR Carnets | TIR (http://www.unece.org/trans/bcf/tir/tirconv/conv75.htm hellbourne) |
| ecol., abbr. | Cooperative Investigation of the Northern Part of the Eastern Central Atlantic | CINECA |
| abbr. | Core Hours - the time periods during the workday, workweek, or pay period that are within the tour of duty during which an employee covered by an alternative work schedule must be present for work. E.g. Core hours are between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. | core hours (Putney Heath) |
| vet.med., abbr. | Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners | CRFP |
| int.transport., abbr. | Customs Convention on the international transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets | TIR (for international road transport) |
| mil., abbr. | Department of the Army Modification Work Order | DAMWO |
| energ.ind., abbr. | Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions | DETR |
| abbr., goldmin. | determination of the amount of a desired constituent in ores, metallurgical residues, and alloys by methods other than those involving liquid means of separation | dry assaying (MichaelBurov) |
| abbr., goldmin. | determination of the amount of a desired constituent in ores, metallurgical residues, and alloys by methods other than those involving liquid means of separation | dry assay (MichaelBurov) |
| abbr., goldmin. | determination of the quantity of a desired constituent in ores, metallurgical residues, and alloys by the use of processes of solution, flotation, or other liquid means | wet assaying (MichaelBurov) |
| abbr., goldmin. | determination of the quantity of a desired constituent in ores, metallurgical residues, and alloys by the use of processes of solution, flotation, or other liquid means | wet assay (MichaelBurov) |
| abbr. | down to pay part of the total cost of something, so that you can pay the rest later put something ↔ | put down on (belks) |
| sport., abbr. | Drawing The Kick | DK |
| abbr., econ. | Early market – n : the market for technology products purchased by visionary customers Geoffrey A. Moore’s innovators and early adopters. Products in the early market stage are either fads that will eventually fail, or will become accepted by the mainstream market pragmatists as technology standards. | early market (mangoo) |
| vet.med., abbr. | European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods: part of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre | ECVAM |
| abbr., taboo | Expression used by rough older British blokes to describe taking a really big piss when they've not been to the bathroom for a while. | Empty a Leg (Example: "Dave - hold on a second. If I don't Empty a Leg right now I'm gonna piss myself!". Franka_LV) |
| food.ind., abbr. | Flavor Of The Month | FOTM |
| abbr., avia. | Follow the ILS flight path indicators | fly the needles |
| abbr., insur. | Free board mark which indicates the load line in tropical zones | T |
| abbr. | Graduate membership of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers | GradIAP (Anglophile) |
| abbr. | Graduate membership of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | GradIMA (Anglophile) |
| IT, abbr. | Handling the Electronic Representation of mixed text - image Office Documents based on ECMA standard 101 | HERODE (ESPRIT, SNI, TITN, ECMA, ODA) |
| abbr. | highly sophisticated, multi-phase flow and multi-constituent, reactive transport model capable of performing a wi de variety of groundwater simulations. UTCHEM was developed at the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin as a chemical flood simulator for enhanced oil recovery design | UTCHEM (KosolaTa) |
| abbr. | in the work cited | op. cit. (Vosoni) |
| abbr., slang | inf. A common phrase used to describe the occasion of a man suddenly producing his penis, often when completely unexpected and for no reason whatsoever. | whip it out (Urban Dictionary definition andreon) |
| int.transport., abbr. | International Convention on the Safe Transport of Containers | CSC (UN) |
| abbr., astronaut., mil. | Joint Army Navy -- A government trademark identification used as the part number prefix for most devices procured to the requirements of military specifications or standards. | JAN |
| slang | kangaroos loose in the top paddock | Intellectually inadequate ("he's got kangaroos loose in the top paddock") |
| IT, abbr. | Keep Up The Good Work | KUTGW (DFUE-Slang, Usenet, IRC) |
| mil., abbr. | Keep Up The Good Work | KUTGW |
| abbr., proj.manag. | LACTI stands for L- Leads Task, A- Approves task work product, C - Consulted on task, T- Tasked to do the work, I- Informed of the work product. | LACTI Chart (L – руководит задачей; A – утверждает результат; C – консультирует по задаче; T – несет ответственность за исполнение задачи; I – ставится в известность о результате Pani) |
| humor., abbr. | Mark Of The Unicorn | MOTU |
| abbr. | Model code of safe practice Part 15: The Area classification code for installations handling flammable fluids | IP15 (EI 15, formerly referred to as IP 15 Alexander Demidov) |
| ocean., abbr. | Model of the Global UNiversal Tracer Transport In the Atmosphere | MOGUNTIA |
| abbr., astronaut., mil. | Not an acronym. Ada is the DoD standard programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, considered to be the world's first computer programmer. | Ada |
| mil., abbr. | Off the Beaten Path | OBP |
| abbr., scottish | Office of the Revolution in Military Affairs | ORMA (Australia) |
| progr. | part of the master boot record | part of the MBR (ssn) |
| abbr. | part of the MBR | part of the master boot record (ssn) |
| abbr., law | perils of the sea | Perils of the lakes |
| abbr., avia. | Plane defined by the flight path of an aircraft and its turn radius | plane of turn |
| abbr., progr. | programmer-speak for "The question as asked has no sensible answer." | Mu (http://towcenter.org/research/post-industrial-journalism/conclusion/ trtrtr) |
| ed., abbr. | Reading Across The Curriculum | RAC |
| NGO, abbr. | Reading For The Blind And Dyslexic | RFBD |
| ed., abbr. | Reading For The Future | RFF |
| abbr., transp. | Regulations Concerning the International Transport of Dangerous Goods by Rail | RID (Yuriy83) |
| relig., abbr. | Share The Joy | STJ |
| int.transport., abbr. | Shipper Declaration for the Transport of Dangerous Goods | SDT (FIATA form) |
| accum. | Stored Energy in the Sea | StEnSea (MichaelBurov) |
| abbr., austral., slang | stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos | roo bar |
| abbr., austral., slang | stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos | bull bar (also roo bar) |
| abbr., modern | Straightedge. It has the same basic principle - No drink, No drugs, No sex - for all followers, but each person makes it their own. Straightedge has NOTHING to do with violence in fact, most straightedgers discourage it or religion that's a personal belief. | sXe (Some examples: some sXe people choose to be vegans or vegetarians, abstain from caffeine, save sex for marriage (as opposed to a serious, committed relationship). Franka_LV) |
| abbr. | Strategic Work Plan for the Nineties | SWP (Дюнан) |
| abbr., fin. | the Supplement to the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits for Electronic Presentation | eUCP (eUCP V1.1 Supplement to UCP 600 ( https://ru.scribd.com/document/249830931/eUCP Eka_Ananieva) |
| abbr., austral., slang | take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy | chuck a sickie |
| abbr., avia. | Term used to describe the position of the pipper at release | sight picture |
| univer., abbr. | The Academy Of Criminology, Mathematics, and Education | ACME |
| math., abbr. | The Advisory Committee For Mathematics Education | ACME |
| abbr., slang | The anticipation one feels when waiting for a response to a text message. | Textpectation (Пример: "I just texted her for a date – but now the textpectation is killing me." Franka_LV) |
| gen. | the best part of | (see) best part of |
| gen. | the better part | (see) better part of |
| gen. | the better part of | (see) better part of |
| abbr., law | The Consumer Credit Protection Act 1968 | C.C.P.A. (naiva) |
| tradem., abbr. | The Credit Department, Inc. | TCD |
| abbr., crim. | The Department of Forensic Science | DFS (nationally accredited forensic laboratory system serving all state and local law enforcement agencies, medical examiners, and Commonwealth's Attorneys in Virginia ( http://www.dfs.virginia.gov) Alex Lilo) |
| NGO, abbr. | The Edmunds Reading Project | ERP |
| EU. | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.< | br> |
| abbr., BrE | the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive | GMPTE (Susannasn) |
| abbr. | the International Association of Art, Painting, Sculpt Graphic Art | IAA |
| abbr., forens.med. | The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists | TIAFT (igisheva) |
| law, abbr. | The Lawful Path | TLP |
| abbr. | the middle part of the afternoon | mid-afternoon (Franka_LV) |
| interntl.trade., abbr. | The National Text Brigade | NTB |
| humor., abbr. | The Nothing Network | TNN |
| media., abbr. | The Omnipotent Critic | TOC |
| abbr. | The part of solid waste composed of grass clippings, leaves, twigs, branches, and other garden refuse. | yardwaste (greenuniv) |
| med. | The Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility | STAFS (Dude67) |
| tradem., abbr. | The Work And Learning Network | WLN |
| abbr., oil | These jobs do require some form of postsecondary training, be it on-the-job experience, course work at a technical college or other credentialing and licensure | postsecondary education (Islet) |
| abbr., fin. | This message contains a credit transfer to be processed according to the Priority Service Level. | SPRI (SWIFT Ying) |
| abbr., fin. | This message contains a credit transfer to be processed according to the SWIFTPay Service Level. | SPAY (SWIFT Ying) |
| abbr., post | TNT N.V., the holding company of TNT and Royal TPG Post is based in the Netherlands. TNT N.V. evolved from the 1996 merger of PTT Post, the national postal service of the Netherlands and TNT Thomas Nationwide Transport, the worldwide transport and logistics company founded in Australia in 1946. | TNT |
| abbr. | To work at a constant rate with the aim of achieving a particular goal, particularly when under pressure. | pace oneself (АБ Berezitsky) |
| NASA, abbr. | Transport Off The Satellite | TOTS |
| abbr. | Union of Road Transport Associations in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Region | BSEC-URTA (Азери) |
| abbr. | United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods | CETDG (coltuclu) |
| abbr. | United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods | UNRTDG (sixthson) |
| gen. | way off the mark | wide of the mark (4uzhoj) |
| gen. | way off the mark | be way off the mark (4uzhoj) |
| rude, abbr. | Why Waste The Work | WWW |
| gen. | wide of the mark | fall wide of the mark (4uzhoj) |
| abbr. | Work For The Dole | WFTD |
| NGO, abbr. | Work For The World | WFW |
| relig., abbr. | Work From The Hearth | WFTH |
| relig., abbr. | Work of the Jesuits in the New Millennium | WJNM |
| ed., abbr. | Work Of the Month | WOM |
| abbr., inf. | work on the side | side work (Andrey Truhachev) |
| busin., abbr. | Working On The Work | WOW |