shortenings Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- compends
- encapsulations
- synopses
- inventories
- briefs
- conspectuses
- breviaries
- summings-up
- summaries
- recaps
- roundups
- resumes
- resum-s
- summarizations
- rundowns
- run-throughs
- pr-cis
- compendiums
- r-sum-s
- digests
- recapitulations
- summae
- simplifications
- capsules
- epitomes
- abstracts
- outlines
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shortenings Meaning
shortenings
a fat (as butter or lard) used in baking especially to make pastry flaky or crumbly, the dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorter word of the same meaning, a making or becoming short or shorter, an edible fat used to shorten baked goods, the action or process of making or becoming short
shortenings Sentence Examples
- The abbreviation "Mgr."
- is a shortening of the Latin word "Monsignor."
- The shortening "wk" is often used in place of the word "week."
- "Dr." is a shortening of the Latin word "Doctor."
- The shortening "approx."
- means "approximately."
- The shortening "et al."
- is used to indicate "and others" in a citation.
- The shortening "ie."
- or "i.e."
FAQs About the word shortenings
a fat (as butter or lard) used in baking especially to make pastry flaky or crumbly, the dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorte
compendia, abridgments, curtailments, condensations,abbreviations, abridgements,compends, encapsulations, synopses, inventories
enlargements,expansions, amplifications, addenda,supplements,addendums
The abbreviation "Mgr."
is a shortening of the Latin word "Monsignor."
The shortening "wk" is often used in place of the word "week."
"Dr." is a shortening of the Latin word "Doctor."
