shortening
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shortening
noun shortenings
- 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. Put on the skillet, slip on the lid / Mammy's going to make us some shortening bread / And that ain't all our mammy's going to do / She's going to cook us some coffee, too
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verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
Opposite: extension, lengthening
verb
- present participle and gerund of shorten
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: abridge, reduce, expurgate, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, cut, abbreviate, contract, foreshorten, lard, cutting, slashing, bridging, curtailment, constriction, shrinkage
Translations
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noun solid fat
| Français | graisse alimentaire |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Pflanzenfett, Backfett |
noun reduction in length
| Español | acortamiento |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 短縮 tanshuku |
| Português | encurtamento |
| Français | raccourcissement, raccourcissements |
| Deutsch | Verkürzung, Schrumpfung, Verkürzen, Schrumpfen, Stauchung, Stauchen |
| Italiano | accorciatura |
| Ελληνικά | βράχυνση vráchynsi, σύμπτυξη sýmptyxi, κόντεμα kóntema |
| Русский | сокраще́ние sokraščénije |
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