"LR" meaning in English

See LR in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} LR (not comparable)
  1. (software compilation, of a parser) Initialism of left to right, rightmost derivation in reverse. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Alternative form of: left to right, rightmost derivation in reverse Categories (topical): Compilation
    Sense id: en-LR-en-adj-u1X~Y2z~ Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 1 44 0 40 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 1 42 1 39 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 1 40 3 38 2 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 1 43 2 42 1 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 21 3 32 6 30 8 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software-compilation
  2. Initialism of long-range. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Alternative form of: long-range
    Sense id: en-LR-en-adj-8TIT42dX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: GLR, LRASM (english: long-range anti-ship missile), LRBM (english: long-range ballistic missile), XLR (english: extra-long-range) Related terms: ER (english: extended range), IR (english: intermediate-range), MR (english: medium-range), SR (english: short-range)

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop|-}} LR (uncountable)
  1. (weaponry) Initialism of long rifle. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: long rifle Categories (topical): Weapons
    Sense id: en-LR-en-name-ZmMVq~tc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 1 44 0 40 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 1 42 1 39 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 1 40 3 38 2 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 1 43 2 42 1 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 21 3 32 6 30 8 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry

Noun

Forms: LRs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} LR (countable and uncountable, plural LRs)
  1. Initialism of light rail. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: light rail Translations (light rail): VLT [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-LR-en-noun-g0uB2yhd Disambiguation of 'light rail': 79 21 0
  2. Initialism of light railway. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: light railway
    Sense id: en-LR-en-noun-~287MPe- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 1 44 0 40 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 1 42 1 39 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 12 1 40 3 38 2 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 1 43 2 42 1 1 1 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 21 3 32 6 30 8
  3. (politics) Initialism of legislative referendum. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: legislative referendum Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-LR-en-noun-XNVPGzcw Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: LRT (english: light rail transit)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.