shortening

English

Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

1. (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, such as margarine or lard (not usually used of butter), used to make shortcrust pastry.
2. verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

   Antonyms: extension, lengthening

Translations

solid fat

• Finnish: leivontarasva
• French: graisse alimentaire f
• German: Pflanzenfett (de) n, Backfett n

reduction in length

• Bulgarian: скъсяване (bg) n (skǎsjavane), съкращаване (bg) n (sǎkraštavane)
• Finnish: lyheneminen (fi), lyhentäminen (fi)
• 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 (it) f
• Japanese: 短縮 (ja) (tanshuku)
• Marathi: मोहन (mohan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forkortning m, abbreviasjon (no) m

• Russian: сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)

Verb

shortening

1. present participle of shorten

Anagrams

• Heringtons

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shortening.

Noun

shortening n (uncountable)

1. shortening

Declension

declension of shortening (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) shortening	shorteningul
genitive/dative	(unui) shortening	shorteningului
vocative	shorteningule