shortening
shortening noun: 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. Also the verbal noun of shorten.
Noun
shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)
- 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.
- Put on the skillet, slip on the lid / Mammy's going to make us some shortening bread / And that ain't all our mammy's going to do / She's going to cook us some coffee, too1979, The Beach Boys, “Shortnin' Bread”, in Adult Child
Also used as
shortening is also the verbal noun of shorten.
shortening is also the present participle and gerund of shorten.
shortening meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu
shortening in Hindi
- छोटा करना
shortening in Marathi
- reduction in length
- मोहन mohan
shortening in Urdu
- مختصر کرنا
shortening in Telugu
- క్లుప్తం చేయడం, క్లుప్తపరచడం
More languagesFewer languages
- shortening in Malayalam
- ഹ്രസ്വവൽക്കരണം, ഹ്രസ്വമാക്കൽ
- shortening in Kannada
- ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತಗೊಳಿಸುವುದು
- shortening in Punjabi
- ਛੋਟਾ ਕਰਨਾ
- shortening in Odia
- ସଂକ୍ଷିପ୍ତ କରିବା
- shortening in Nepali
- छोटो गर्दै, छोटो गर्ने, छोटो पार्दै
- shortening in Indonesian
- lemak reroti, mentega putih, pemendekan
Examples of shortening in a sentence
- You can shrug by shortening up your shoulders and express anger or disgust by shortening up the upper lip.
- The preejection shortening and relengthening correspond to septal beaking and flash.
- In January Jims was five months old and Rilla celebrated the anniversary by shortening him.
Antonyms of shortening
Forms of shortening
| plural | shortenings |
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Words formed from shortening
Phrases with shortening
Questions about shortening
- What does shortening mean?
- Shortening means 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.
- What is shortening in Hindi?
- Shortening in Hindi is छोटा करना. See Shortening meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shortening?
- Shortening is a noun.
- What is the plural of shortening?
- The plural of shortening is shortenings.
Words near shortening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortening (page history and authors); shortening (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shortening (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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