shortening (countable anduncountable plural shortenings
( US , cooking ) Fat that issolid atroom temperature , especiallyhydrogenated vegetable oil (known asvegetable shortening ), used to makeshortcrust pastry and indeep fat frying .verbal noun ofshorten reduction inlength .Antonyms: extension lengthening In older texts, the termshortening referred to any fat solid at room temperature, includingbutter ,margarine andlard , but in more recent usage it is usually understood to refer to vegetable shortening.
reduction in length
Bulgarian:скъсяване (bg) n ( skǎsjavane ) ,съкращаване (bg) n ( sǎkraštavane ) Catalan:escurçada (ca) f escurçament m Finnish:lyheneminen (fi) ,lyhentäminen (fi) French:raccourcissement (fr) m raccourcissements (fr) m pl German:Verkürzung (de) f Schrumpfung f Verkürzen n Schrumpfen n Stauchung f Stauchen n Kürzung (de) f Kürzen n Greek:βράχυνση (el) f ( vráchynsi ) ,σύμπτυξη (el) f ( sýmptyxi ) ,κόντεμα (el) n ( kóntema ) Hungarian:rövidítés (hu) ,rövidülés (hu) Indonesian:pemendekan (id) Italian:accorciatura (it) f Japanese:短縮 (ja) ( tanshuku ) Marathi:मोहन ( mohan ) Norwegian:Bokmål:forkortning m abbreviasjon (no) m Portuguese:encurtamento (pt) m Russian:сокраще́ние (ru) n ( sokraščénije ) Spanish:acortamiento (es) m Swedish:förkortning (sv) c
shortening
present participle andgerund ofshorten Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish shortening
shortening n uncountable
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