shortening

English

Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

1. (US, cooking) Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry
2. verbal noun of shorten - a reduction in length

Antonyms

• extension
• lengthening

Translations

reduction in length

• French: raccourcissement (fr) m, raccourcissements (fr) m pl
• Greek: βράχυνση (el) f (vráchynsi), σύμπτυξη (el) f (sýmptyxi), κόντεμα (el) n (kóntema)
• Hungarian: rövidítés (hu), rövidülés
• Italian: accorciatura f

• Japanese: 短縮 (ja) (tanshuku)
• Marathi: मोहन (mohan)
• Russian: сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)

Verb

shortening

1. present participle of shorten

Anagrams

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