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: Shortening n

reduction in length

• 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

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