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Noun [English]

Forms: shortenings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)
  1. (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cooking, Fats and oils Translations (solid fat): leivontarasva (Finnish), graisse alimentaire [feminine] (French), Pflanzenfett [neuter] (German), Backfett [neuter] (German), margarin (Hungarian), főzőmargarin (Hungarian), növényi zsír/zsiradék (Hungarian), but see fast matfett (Swedish), באַקפֿעטס (bakfets) (Yiddish), געשמילץ (geshmilts) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-shortening-en-noun-NppqAR7U Disambiguation of Fats and oils: 73 21 6 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 47 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 62 31 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 48 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 65 28 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 66 28 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 67 27 6 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 61 27 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 61 32 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 59 30 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 65 28 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 62 32 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 59 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 64 30 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 65 28 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 67 28 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 59 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 59 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 68 26 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Yiddish translations: 66 29 5 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'solid fat': 99 1
  2. verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length. Tags: countable, form-of, noun-from-verb, uncountable Form of: shorten (extra: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length) Translations (reduction in length): скъсяване (skǎsjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), съкращаване (sǎkraštavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), escurçada [feminine] (Catalan), escurçament [masculine] (Catalan), lyheneminen (Finnish), lyhentäminen (Finnish), raccourcissement [masculine] (French), raccourcissements [masculine, plural] (French), Verkürzung [feminine] (German), Schrumpfung [feminine] (German), Verkürzen [neuter] (German), Schrumpfen [neuter] (German), Stauchung [feminine] (German), Stauchen [neuter] (German), Kürzung [feminine] (German), Kürzen [neuter] (German), βράχυνση (vráchynsi) [feminine] (Greek), σύμπτυξη (sýmptyxi) [feminine] (Greek), κόντεμα (kóntema) [neuter] (Greek), rövidítés (Hungarian), rövidülés (Hungarian), accorciatura [feminine] (Italian), 短縮 (tanshuku) (Japanese), मोहन (mohan) (Marathi), forkortning [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), abbreviasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), encurtamento [masculine] (Portuguese), сокраще́ние (sokraščénije) [neuter] (Russian), acortamiento [masculine] (Spanish), förkortning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shortening-en-noun-Hid6t~E~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 47 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 48 4 Disambiguation of 'reduction in length': 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: shortening time, vegetable shortening

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} shortening
  1. present participle and gerund of shorten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: shorten
    Sense id: en-shortening-en-verb-vPaIQ1Ak

Noun [Romanian]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], shortening [accusative, indefinite, nominative], shorteningul [accusative, definite, nominative], shortening [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite], shorteningului [definite, error-unrecognized-form], shorteningule [vocative]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English shortening. Etymology templates: {{ubor|ro|en|shortening}} Unadapted borrowing from English shortening Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|-}} shortening n (uncountable) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun-single|g=n|gpd=shorteningelor|gpi=shorteninge|gsd=shorteningului|gsi=shortening|n=sg|npd=shorteningele|npi=shorteninge|nsd=shorteningul|nsi=shortening|vp=shorteningelor|vs=shorteningule}}
  1. shortening Tags: neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-shortening-ro-noun-TW~PL1S3 Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "solid fat",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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        "feminine"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "word": "сокраще́ние"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "code": "sv",
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