SHORTENING Definition & Meaning

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shortening

[ shawrt-ning, shawr-tn-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
Phonetics. the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short.
Linguistics.
1. the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning, as in forming piano from pianoforte or phone from telephone.
2. clipped form.

shortening

/ ˈʃɔː��ə��ɪŋ /

butter, lard, or other fat, used in a dough, cake mixture, etc, to make the mixture short

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First recorded in 1535–45; shorten + -ing ¹

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One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives.

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Taillon revamped his delivery after his second surgery, using more leg thrust and shortening his arm path in an effort to ease pressure on his elbow.

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And by shortening the line-out – a potential area of weakness - they thinned out Ireland's thicket of jumpers.

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She recommends a mix of butter and shortening, though any fat will work as long as it’s cold and evenly cut into the flour.

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Lord Cameron said he believed the current proposal was "not about ending life, it is about shortening death".

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