"shortening" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shortenings [plural]
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  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)
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  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

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} shortening
  1. present participle and gerund of shorten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: shorten
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          "fat"
        ],
        [
          "solid",
          "solid"
        ],
        [
          "room temperature",
          "room temperature"
        ],
        [
          "hydrogenate",
          "hydrogenate"
        ],
        [
          "vegetable oil",
          "vegetable oil"
        ],
        [
          "shortcrust",
          "shortcrust"
        ],
        [
          "pastry",
          "pastry"
        ],
        [
          "deep fat fry",
          "deep fat fry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
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        "US",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
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          "word": "extension"
        },
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          "word": "lengthening"
        }
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      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length",
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        "verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "leivontarasva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "graisse alimentaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Pflanzenfett"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "Backfett"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "margarin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "főzőmargarin"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "növényi zsír/zsiradék"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "note": "no equivalent term in Swedish",
      "sense": "solid fat"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "but see fast matfett"
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bakfets",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "באַקפֿעטס"
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    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "geshmilts",
      "sense": "solid fat",
      "word": "געשמילץ"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skǎsjavane",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "скъсяване"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎkraštavane",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "съкращаване"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "escurçada"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "escurçament"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "lyheneminen"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "lyhentäminen"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "raccourcissement"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Verkürzung"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Schrumpfung"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "word": "Stauchung"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "vráchynsi",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "βράχυνση"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sýmptyxi",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "σύμπτυξη"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kóntema",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "κόντεμα"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "rövidítés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "rövidülés"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "accorciatura"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tanshuku",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "短縮"
    },
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "mohan",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "word": "मोहन"
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
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      "word": "forkortning"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "abbreviasjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "encurtamento"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sokraščénije",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "сокраще́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "acortamiento"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reduction in length",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "förkortning"
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