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 Definitions of shortening  [ˈʃɔrt nɪŋ, ˈʃɔr tn ɪŋ]  

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Definition of 'shortening' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) shortening
butter or other fat used to shorten pastry, bread, or the like.

2.  shortening
the act or process of making or becoming short or shorter.

3.  shortening
the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning.

Etymology:  (1535–45)

Definition of 'shortening' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) shortening
fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

2. (noun) shortening
act of decreasing in length
"the dress needs shortening"


Definition of 'shortening' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) shortening
the act of making or becoming short or shorter

2. (noun) shortening
that which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc

3.  shortening
of Shorten


Translation of 'shortening' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (especially American) the fat used for making pastry.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: smeer Arabic flag Arabic: دُهْن يُسْتَعْمَل في عَمَ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: мазнина
Brazilian flag Brazilian: banha Czech flag Czech: tuk (do pečiva) German flag German: das Backfett
Danish flag Danish: fedtstof til bagning Greek flag Greek: λίπος για ζύμη γλυκισμάτω Spanish flag Spanish: manteca, grasa
Estonian flag Estonian: küpsetusmargariin Farsi flag Farsi: روغن تردكننده شيريمي Finnish flag Finnish: leivontarasva
French flag French: graisse végétale Hebrew flag Hebrew: שוּמָן אֲפִייָה Hindi flag Hindi: चर्बी
Croatian flag Croatian: masnoća koja tijestu daje Hungarian flag Hungarian: (növényi) zsiradék Indonesian flag Indonesian: lemak untuk membuat kue k
Icelandic flag Icelandic: feiti (smjör, smjörlíki, Italian flag Italian: grasso Japanese flag Japanese: ショートニング
Korean flag Korean: 쇼트닝 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: konditeriniai riebalai Latvian flag Latvian: tauki (cepumu mīklas trau
Malay flag Malay: lelemak Dutch flag Dutch: bakvet Norwegian flag Norwegian: margarin, fett (til bakst
Polish flag Polish: tłuszcz cukierniczy Persian flag Persian: روغن تردكننده شيريمي Pashto flag Pashto: غوړ (په تېره نباتي): تبۍ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: banha Romanian flag Romanian: grăsimi vegetale Russian flag Russian: жир, добавляемый в тесто
Slovak flag Slovak: tuk (do pečiva) Slovenian flag Slovenian: rastlinska mast Serbian flag Serbian: biljna mast
Swedish flag Swedish: matfett Thai flag Thai: ไขมันใช้ทำขนมให้กรอบร่วน Turkish flag Turkish: mutfak yağı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (尤在美國)製作糕點時所使用的油脂 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: жир для тіста Urdu flag Urdu: ڈھیلی پیسٹری بنانے میں اس
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự thu ngắn lại Chinese flag Chinese: 食用油脂(酥油/雪白奶油)

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