shortening of word

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• Shortening — is a semisolid fat used in food preparation, especially baked goods, and is so called because it promotes a short or crumbly texture (as in shortbread). The term shortening can be used more broadly to apply to any fat that is used for baking and… …   Wikipedia

• shortening — /shawrt ning, shawr tn ing/, n. 1. butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short. 2. Phonet. the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short. 3. Ling. a. the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from …   Universalium

• shortening — noun Date: 1538 1. the action or process of making or becoming short; specifically the dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorter word of the same meaning 2. an edible fat used to shorten baked goods …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• shortening — short•en•ing [[t]ˈʃɔrt nɪŋ, ˈʃɔr tn ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) coo butter or other fat used to shorten pastry, bread, or the like 2) phn the act or process of making or becoming short or shorter 3) ling. a) the act or process of dropping one or more syllables …   From formal English to slang

• URL shortening — For information about human generated short URLs on Wikipedia, see WP:WP and mw:Manual:Short URL. URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still… …   Wikipedia

• Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) word etymology — Hindustānī also known as Hindi Urdu, is a term used by linguists to describe several closely related idioms in the northern, central and northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. It encompasses two standardized registers in the form of the… …   Wikipedia

• Itawis — is a Northern Philippine language which has close relationships to Ibanag, Ilocano, and other languages of the same order. Unlike the rest of Philippine languages, Itawit and its kin use the consonants z,f,j (spelled like dy but sounds lik j) and …   Wikipedia

• Eric McCormack — Infobox actor name = Eric McCormack imagesize = 200px caption = McCormack in 2006 birthname = Eric James McCormack birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1963|4|18 birthplace = Toronto, Ontario, Canada occupation = Actor, producer, writer… …   Wikipedia

• Aza- — The prefix aza is used in organic chemistry to form names of organic compounds where a carbon atom is replaced by a nitrogen atom. Sometimes a number between hyphens is inserted before it to state which atom the nitrogen atom replaces. It arose… …   Wikipedia

• Sit Down, Shut Up (U.S. TV series) — For Australian version, see Sit Down, Shut Up (Australian TV series). Sit Down, Shut Up Genre Comedy Blue humor Format 2D com …   Wikipedia

• Egyptian Arabic — Masri redirects here. For other uses, see Masri (disambiguation). Egyptian Arabic اللغة المصرية العامية Pronunciation [elˈloɣæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ l.ʕæmˈmejjæ] Spoken in Egypt …   Wikipedia