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shortify

shortify verb: synonym of shorten.

Verb

shortify (third-person singular simple present shortifies, present participle shortifying, simple past and past participle shortified)

  1. (nonstandard) Synonym of shorten.
    • But when I commenced my taunting, I accidentally said "Why do you guys have to shortify everything?" and since, last I heard, shortify isn't much of a word either, I've lost a little of my moxie.2008 September 9, Trika Harms zum Spreckel, I Quant It All! (or, TKs for VS2008 exams)
    • is there anything you won't shortify?2017 February 15, honorary pie, Re: TTF Shorty R-10
    Synonyms:
    shorten

Examples of shortify in a sentence

  • We denote #92;mathit#123;Coh#125;(X)#61;#92;mathit#123;Coh#125;#95;X the category of coherent sheaves on a scheme X, for any scheme X (not only affine) to shortify denotations.2018 January 20, Andrei Druzhinin, Strictly homotopy invariance of Nisnevich sheaves with GW-transfers:
  • Automatically shortify titles of mathematical journals2020: Nikolai Avdeev, synopsis of the shortmathj LaTeX package 0.5.0, 2020-03-18

Synonyms of shortify

Forms of shortify

third-person singular presentshortifies
present participleshortifying
past participleshortified
pastshortified

Origin of shortify

From short + -ify.

Questions about shortify

What does shortify mean?
Shortify means synonym of shorten.
How do you use shortify in a sentence?
We denote #92;mathit#123;Coh#125;(X)#61;#92;mathit#123;Coh#125;#95;X the category of coherent sheaves on a scheme X, for any scheme X (not only affine) to shortify denotations.
What part of speech is shortify?
Shortify is a verb.
What is the past tense of shortify?
The past tense of shortify is shortified.

Words near shortify in the dictionary

  1. shorths
  2. shortia
  3. shortias
  4. shortie
  5. shorties
  6. shortify
  7. shorting
  8. shorting down
  9. shorting out
  10. shortings
  11. shortish

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