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Definition of shorten
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shorten is as below...
Shorten
(v. i.) To
become
short or
shorter;
as, the day
shortens
in
northern
latitudes
from June to
December;
a
metallic
rod
shortens
by
cold..
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Apocopation
::
Apocopation
(n.)
Shortening
by
apocope;
the state of being
apocopated.
Biscuit
::
Biscuit
(n.) A small loaf or cake of
bread,
raised
and
shortened,
or made light with soda or
baking
powder.
Usually
a
number
are baked in the same pan,
forming
a sheet or
card..
Shorten
::
Shorten
(a.) To
reduce
or
diminish
in
amount,
quantity,
or
extent;
to
lessen;
to
abridge;
to
curtail;
to
contract;
as, to
shorten
work, an
allowance
of food, etc..
Brief
::
Brief (v. t.) To make an
abstract
or
abridgment
of; to
shorten;
as, to brief
pleadings..
Shortening
::
Shortening
(n.) That which
renders
pastry
short or
friable,
as
butter,
lard, etc..
Foreshorten
::
Foreshorten
(v. t.) Fig.: To
represent
pictorially
to the
imagination.
Enough
::
Enough
(interj.)
An
exclamation
denoting
sufficiency,
being a
shortened
form of it is
enough..
Curtail
::
Curtail
(v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to
shorten;
to
abridge;
to
diminish;
to
reduce..
Brigadier General
::
Brigadier
general
() An
officer
in rank next above a
colonel,
and below a major
general.
He
commands
a
brigade,
and is
sometimes
called,
by a
shortening
of his
title,
simple
a
brigadier..
Abbreviation
::
Abbreviation
(n.) The act of
shortening,
or
reducing..
Welk
::
Welk (v. t.) To
contract;
to
shorten.
Retract
::
Retract
(v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or
shorten;
as, the cat can
retract
its
claws;
to
retract
a
muscle..
Contract
::
Contract
(n.) To
shorten
by
omitting
a
letter
or
letters
or by
reducing
two or more
vowels
or
syllables
to one.
Foreshortening
::
Foreshortening
(n.)
Representation
in a
foreshortened
mode or way.
Al-
::
Al- (A
prefix.)
To; at; on; -- in OF.
shortened
to a-. See Ad-.
Slide
::
Slide (n.) An
apparatus
in the
trumpet
and
trombone
by which the
sounding
tube is
lengthened
and
shortened
so as to
produce
the tones
between
the
fundamental
and its
harmonics.
Curtate
::
Curtate
(a.)
Shortened
or
reduced;
-- said of the
distance
of a
planet
from the sun or
earth,
as
measured
in the plane of the
ecliptic,
or the
distance
from the sun or earth to that point where a
perpendicular,
let fall from the
planet
upon the plane of the
ecliptic,
meets the
ecliptic..
Dock
::
Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to
shorten;
to
deduct
from; to
subject
to a
deduction;
as, to dock one's
wages..
Cut-out
::
Cut-out
(n.) A
species
of
switch
for
changing
the
current
from one
circuit
to
another,
or for
shortening
a
circuit..
Shorten
::
Shorten
(a.) To make short or
shorter
in
measure,
extent,
or time; as, to
shorten
distance;
to
shorten
a road; to
shorten
days of
calamity..
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