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shorten
(mass) | shorten
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shorten
(encz) | shorten,omezit v: Zdeněk Brož |
shorten
(encz) | shorten,snížit v: Zdeněk Brož |
shorten
(encz) | shorten,zestručnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
shorten
(encz) | shorten,zkrácený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
shorten
(encz) | shorten,zmenšit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Shorten
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, 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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Shorten
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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shorten
(wn) | shorten
v 1: make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench
in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to
illness" [ant: lengthen]
2: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten,
abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant:
dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate,
exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate]
3: make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope
by a few inches"
4: become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" [ant:
lengthen]
5: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise,
expurgate, castrate, shorten] |
shorten
(foldoc) | Shorten
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foreshorten
(encz) | foreshorten,vyjádřit ve zkratce Zdeněk Brož |
shortened
(encz) | shortened,zkrácený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
shortener
(encz) | shortener, n: |
shortening
(encz) | shortening,tuk n: webshortening,zkracování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Foreshorten
(gcide) | Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t.
1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended
in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to
shorten by drawing in perspective.
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2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
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Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson.
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Foreshortening
(gcide) | Foreshortening \Fore*short"en*ing\, n. (Fine Arts)
Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
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Shorten
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, v. i.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern
latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by
cold.
[1913 Webster]Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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Shortened
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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Shortener
(gcide) | Shortener \Short"en*er\, n.
One who, or that which, shortens.
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Shortening
(gcide) | Shortening \Short"en*ing\, n.
1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
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2. (Cookery) That which renders pastry short or friable, as
butter, lard, etc.
[1913 Webster]Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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To shorten a rope
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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To shorten sail
(gcide) | Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil,
OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root]
153.]
1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the
wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels
through the water.
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Behoves him now both sail and oar. --Milton.
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2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
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3. A wing; a van. [Poetic]
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Like an eagle soaring
To weather his broad sails. --Spenser.
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4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
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5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
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Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as
the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight.
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6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon
the water.
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Note: Sails are of two general kinds, fore-and-aft sails,
and square sails. Square sails are always bent to
yards, with their foot lying across the line of the
vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs
with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft
sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after
leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are
quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases
under Fore, a., and Square, a.; also, Bark,
Brig, Schooner, Ship, Stay.
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Sail burton (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft
for bending.
Sail fluke (Zool.), the whiff.
Sail hook, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the
seams square.
Sail loft, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made.
Sail room (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are
stowed when not in use.
Sail yard (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is
extended.
Shoulder-of-mutton sail (Naut.), a triangular sail of
peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast.
To crowd sail. (Naut.) See under Crowd.
To loose sails (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails.
To make sail (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of
sail.
To set a sail (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the
wind.
To set sail (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence,
to begin a voyage.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or
take in a part.
To strike sail (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in
saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to
acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.
Under sail, having the sails spread.
[1913 Webster]Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. 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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2. 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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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Unshortened
(gcide) | Unshortened \Unshortened\
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foreshorten
(wn) | foreshorten
v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge,
foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract,
reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand,
expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out,
lucubrate]
2: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of
depth |
shortened
(wn) | shortened
adj 1: cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off
broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" [syn:
sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened]
2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated,
shortened, truncated]
3: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within
another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that
anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed
telescoped like time in a dream" [syn: telescoped,
shortened]
4: with parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: cut,
shortened] |
shortener
(wn) | shortener
n 1: any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of
life" |
shortening
(wn) | shortening
n 1: fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
2: act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening" |
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