Definition of Shortens. Meaning of Shortens. Synonyms of Shortens

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Definition of Shortens

Shorten
Shorten Short"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. & vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.] 1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. --Dryden. 3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. --Dryden. 4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
Shorten
Shorten Short"en, v. i. To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Meaning of Shortens from wikipedia

- Shorten may refer to: Shorten (codec), for compressing audio data Shorten (surname), an English surname Short (disambiguation) Shorton (disambiguation)...
- Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar...
- Shorten (SHN) is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality...
- Governor-General Quentin Bryce. The Shortens live in Moonee Ponds, Victoria with their daughter, as well as Chloe Shorten's other two children from her previous...
- shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, t.co, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten...
- Rebecca Shorten (born 25 November 1993) is a Northern Irish rower from Belfast. She is a world and European gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist...
- Jack Shorten may refer to: Jack Shorten (Australian rules footballer) (1887–1958), pla**** for Collingwood Jack Shorten (Gaelic footballer) (1886–1972)...
- shortening. In earlier centuries, lard was the primary ingredient used to shorten dough. The reason it is called shortening is that it makes the resulting...
- Clive Shorten (born 28 June 1973) is an English former competitive figure skater. He is the 1992 Piruetten bronze medalist, 1994 Czech Skate silver medalist...
- established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, for use in social networking, SMS, and email...