shortening

Meaning

Noun

1. (US, countable, uncountable) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
2. (countable, form-of, noun-from-verb, uncountable) verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

Verb

present participle and gerund of shorten

shorten

1. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
2. (intransitive) To become shorter.
3. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
4. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
5. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
6. (transitive) To make crumbly.
7. (transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
8. (transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
9. (dated, transitive) to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown

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Opposite of

extension, lengthening

Synonyms

abbreviation

grease

curtailment

contraction

abridgement

gasoline

shrinking

kerosene

lard

lessening

decrease

fat

reduction

depreciation

diminishing

margarin

margarine

marge

oil

reduce

reducing

retrenchment

shorten

truncation

minification

act of cutting

petrolium

abate

curtation

abridging

abridgment

amortisation

amortization

brief

butter

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clipping

condensing

curtailing

cut

cut down

depletion

Translations

Verkürzung

Backfett

raccourcissement

Kürzung

abrégement

abreviación

abreviatura

accorciamento

abbreviazione

abréviation

escurçament

Abkürzung

Abbreviatur

اِختصار