Antonym: lengthen. Similar words: short, shorts, in short, shortly, shortage, cut short, short-term, reporter. Meaning: ['ʃɔrtn /'ʃɔːtn] v. 1. make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration 2. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements 3. make short or shorter 4. become short or shorter 5. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
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31) A structured induction is necessary to shorten the learning period and expedite informed contributions.
32) That would take a spin rate sufficient to shorten the day to something like 2 hours.
33) It is estimated that for every cigarette you smoke you shorten your life span by five minutes.
34) The tiny tracheae, which are strengthened with rings in their walls, do not flatten but shorten and expand like concertinas.
35) Grease and oil degrade ordinary anti-fatigue mats and shorten service life.
36) Knowing that governments have lost their ability to shorten recessions also radically changes expectations.
37) Don't shorten the stems, just tidy them to a clean cut, and do the same with any broken roots.
38) We wanted to shorten the game and keep the ball away from their offense.
39) This can shorten the lead time, but to be effective it must be accompanied by the correct information processing pattern.
40) The new procedure could shorten hospital stays by two to three days.
41) If a team could bring a manager into its virtual world, the review process would shorten dramatically.
42) The laws have been simplified to shorten the process of divorce.
43) PAIN-KILLERS should be made available to control any distressing symptoms, despite the fact that such treatment may shorten life.
44) I heard she had an operation to shorten her nose.
45) The latter are useful in that they shorten the time taken to learn the concept.
46) Listing can also significantly shorten your actual writing time and help you create strong coherent language.
47) Shorten turnaround time, mean can use ready money better.
48) Follow quadrilateral rolling, strengthen accuracy and shorten error.
49) The captain ordered his men to shorten sail.
50) They had to shorten the school term.
51) Objective: Differentiating the syndromes of post operative non- infectious fever of closed fracture to direct the treatments of Chinese medicine, shorten the period of post operative fever.
52) Supersonic technique was introduced into synthetic route of resorcinol - formaldehyde ( RF ) aerogel to shorten the fabrication period.
53) The base-2 system makes for very long encoded messages or bit width, so programmers came up with a way to shorten this encoding based on the hexadecimal system (Fig. 2).
54) In order to shorten the development cycle, the rapid prototyping technique, including the computer simulation, the hardware-in-loop simulation and the road test, was suggested.
55) Conclusions:These studies show that ASMT can significantly reduce the severity and shorten the duration of pain and hyperalgesia caused by lumbar IVF inflammation.
56) The developing time of the radar real-time signal processing was shorten.
57) A stiff breeze sprang up,[www.Sentencedict.com] and we had to shorten sail.
58) In addition to cutting engineering time, the pre-engineered CEMAT modules and interfaces help shorten time to market and project cycles while reducing costs and increasing plant output.
59) The technology can shorten testing and production test period, and reduce production cost.
60) Since PDQ priority uses more threads to process a query than the normal way, it will shorten data access time.
More similar words: short, shorts, in short, shortly, shortage, cut short, short-term, reporter, supporter, inadvertent, reportedly, inadvertently, starter, charter, quarter, horn, courteous, repartee, abhor, horror, hormone, show, horizon, shout, quarterback, horrible, metaphor, thorough, show off, shove.