shorten
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
~ become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
shorten
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
~ make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
shorten
— Udsagnsord
– Engelsk
~ reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
shortened
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
shortened
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
shortened
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"
shortened
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
shortener
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of life"
shortening
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening"
shortening
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
shortfall
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
shortfin mako
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters; important game fish
shortgrass
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
shorthand
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system
shorthand
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
shorthorn
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ English breed of short-horned cattle
Shortia galacifolia
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ plant of southeastern United States having solitary white funnel-shaped flowers flushed with pink and large glossy green leaves that turn bronze-red in fall
shortia
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers