shortening

Speech parts

1. shortening - Noun

2. shortening - Verb

Meaning

of Shorten

The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

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Examples

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork.... they will receive my new work as they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn. Kurt Schwitters

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. Ingrid Bergman

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. Karen Thompson Walker

It is a religion in so far as, having shown us the course of ordinary evolution, it also puts before us and advises a method of shortening that course, so that by conscious effort we may progress more directly towards the goal. Charles Webster Leadbeater

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts. Andrew Weil

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words. Jim Butcher

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