ALL meanings of shortening
short·en·ing
S s - noun shortening lard for pastry 1
- noun shortening decrease in length 1
- noun shortening making briefer 1
- noun shortening butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short. 1
- noun shortening Phonetics. the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short. 1
- noun shortening Linguistics. the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning, as in forming piano from pianoforte or phone from telephone. clipped form. 1
- verb with object shortening to make short or shorter. 1
- verb with object shortening to reduce, decrease, take in, etc.: to shorten sail. 1
- verb with object shortening to make (pastry, bread, etc.) short, as with butter or other fat. 1
- verb with object shortening Sports. choke (def 8). 1
- verb without object shortening to become short or shorter. 1
- verb without object shortening (of odds) to decrease. 1
- variable noun shortening Shortening is cooking fat that you use with flour in order to make pastry or dough. 0
- noun shortening butter, lard, or other fat, used in a dough, cake mixture, etc, to make the mixture short 0
- noun shortening the act of making or becoming short or shorter 0
- noun shortening edible fat, esp. as used to make pastry, etc. crisp or flaky 0