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short⋅en⋅ing

  [shawrt-ning, shawr-tn-ing]
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–noun
1. butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
2. Phonetics. the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short.
3. Linguistics.
a. 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.
b. clipped form.
Origin:
1535–45; shorten + -ing 1
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short⋅en

  [shawr-tn]
–verb (used with object)
1. to make short or shorter.
2. to reduce, decrease, take in, etc.: to shorten sail.
3. to make (pastry, bread, etc.) short, as with butter or other fat.
4. Sports. choke (def. 8).
–verb (used without object)
5. to become short or shorter.
6. (of odds) to decrease.
Origin:
1505–15; short + -en 1

Related forms:
short⋅en⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. condense, lessen, limit, restrict. Shorten, abbreviate, abridge, curtail mean to make shorter or briefer. Shorten is a general word meaning to make less in extent or duration: to shorten a dress, a prisoner's sentence. The other three terms suggest methods of shortening. To abbreviate is to make shorter by omission or contraction: to abbreviate a word. To abridge is to reduce in length or size by condensing, summarizing, and the like: to abridge a document. Curtail suggests deprivation and lack of completeness because of omitting some part: to curtail an explanation. 5. contract, lessen.

clipped form

 
–noun
a word formed by dropping one or more syllables from a longer word or phrase with no change in meaning, as deli from delicatessen or flu from influenza.
Also called clipped word, clipping, shortening.
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short·en   (shôr'tn)   
v.   short·ened, short·en·ing, short·ens

v.   tr.

  1. To make short or shorter.

  2. Nautical To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.

  3. To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.

  4. To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.

v.   intr.
To become short or shorter.
short'en·er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to diminish the length, duration, or extent of by or as if by cutting: vices that will shorten your life; abbreviated the speech; abridging the citizens' rights; curtailed their visit; truncated the conversation.
Antonym: lengthen
short·en·ing   (shôr'tn-ĭng, shôrt'nĭng)   
n.  

  1. A fat, such as butter or lard, used to make cake or pastry light or flaky.

  2. A shortened form of something, as a word.

  3. The act of one that shortens.

  4. The act or process of becoming shorter.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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shortening

fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin used in most doughs and batters to impart crisp and crumbly texture to baked products and to increase the plasticity, or workability, of doughs. Important commercial shortenings include butter, lard, vegetable oils, processed shortenings, and margarine. For most baking purposes, desirable characteristics include bland or pleasant flavour; freedom from objectionable odour; light or clear colour; a high degree of plasticity; long storage life; and good shortening power, or ability to weaken and lubricate the structure of baked products to produce tenderness. Firm fats produce flaky pastry; oils yield more compact pastry. The proportion of shortening in doughs and batters varies according to the product, with breads and rolls containing about 1-2 percent, cakes containing 10-20 percent, and piecrusts containing over 30 percent. Increasing shortening proportions increases tenderness, but very high proportions may cause cakes to fall

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