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1 acortar
v.1 to shorten (longitud, cuerda).Ellos acortaron el tiempo asignado They shortened the alloted time.2 to abridge, to shorten.Ellos acortaron la versión para cine They abridged the movie version.* * *1 to shorten, make shorter1 to shorten1 figurado to be shy* * *verbto shorten, reduce* * *1.VT [+ vestido, falda, traje] to take up, shorten; [+ artículo, texto] to shorten, cut down; [+ periodo, duración] to shorten, reduceesta carretera acortará la distancia entre las dos ciudades — this road will shorten the distance between the two cities
el Barcelona está acortando distancias con el Real Madrid — Barcelona is catching up with Real Madrid
2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo <falda/vestido> to shorten; <texto/artículo> to cut, shorten; <vacaciones/permanencia> to cut short; <película/carrera> to reduce the length of2.acortarse v pron to get shorter* * *= curtail, shorten, truncate, conflate, foreshorten, cut + Nombre + short, abridge, abbreviate, cut across.Ex. The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.Ex. If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.Ex. Authors did not always read proofs; revises might be omitted and routines conflated.Ex. Medicine also needs to reconsider whether actions that foreshorten life can be normative and permissible.Ex. May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.Ex. Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.Ex. The Dewey Decimal Classification ( abbreviated to either DC or DDC) is arguably the most important bibliographic classification scheme.Ex. He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.----* acortar las diferencias = close + the gap.* acortar las distancias = close + the gap.* acortar las distancias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.* acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short.* acortarse = grow + shorter.* * *1.verbo transitivo <falda/vestido> to shorten; <texto/artículo> to cut, shorten; <vacaciones/permanencia> to cut short; <película/carrera> to reduce the length of2.acortarse v pron to get shorter* * *= curtail, shorten, truncate, conflate, foreshorten, cut + Nombre + short, abridge, abbreviate, cut across.Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.Ex: Authors did not always read proofs; revises might be omitted and routines conflated.Ex: Medicine also needs to reconsider whether actions that foreshorten life can be normative and permissible.Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.Ex: The Dewey Decimal Classification ( abbreviated to either DC or DDC) is arguably the most important bibliographic classification scheme.Ex: He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.* acortar las diferencias = close + the gap.* acortar las distancias = close + the gap.* acortar las distancias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.* acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short.* acortarse = grow + shorter.* * *acortar [A1 ]vt‹falda/vestido› to shorten; ‹texto/artículo› to cut, shorten; ‹vacaciones/estancia› to cut shortvamos por aquí, para acortar camino let's go this way, it's quicker o shorteracortaron la distancia de la prueba they reduced the length of the raceto get shorter* * *
acortar ( conjugate acortar) verbo transitivo ‹falda/vestido› to shorten;
‹texto/artículo› to cut, shorten;
‹vacaciones/permanencia› to cut short;
‹película/carrera› to reduce the length of;
‹ distancia› to reduce;
acortarse verbo pronominal
to get shorter
acortar verbo transitivo to shorten
♦ Locuciones: acortar las distancias, to cut down the distance
' acortar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abreviar
- hacer
- interrumpir
English:
curtail
- cut
- shorten
- take up
- gain
- take
- turn
* * *♦ vt1. [longitud, cuerda] to shorten2. [falda, pantalón] to take up3. [reunión, viaje] to cut short4. [condena] to cut, to reduce♦ vipor este camino acortaremos we'll get there quicker this way* * *I v/t shortenII v/i take a short cut* * *acortar vt: to shorten, to cut short* * *acortar vb1. (tamaño, longitud) to shorten2. (tiempo) to reduce
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