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.
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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121) Conclnsion: Osthol can prolong CT and PT, and shorten ELT, indicating its unambiguous effect on blood anticoagulation.
122) Results:Galactitol can obviously shorten the time of pass through stomach and intestines, action of others is not obvious.
123) Smoking is tantamount to squandering their health and shorten their lives.
124) Conclusion Application of carboprost in induced labor with scarred uterus may reduce volume of postpartum hemorrhage, shorten duration of third stage of labor, and decrease rate of placenta residue.
125) Log data in MDMRS will be reduced, while the recovery time will be shorten.
126) It can be used routinely to select the appropriate cases to undergo MRCP, which could obviously reduce the hospitalization costs and shorten the hospitalization time.
127) Shorten setup - adjustment time when PS plates are setup on the printing machine.
128) Third, Proxemics can help teachers give a serious surrounding to students, or shorten the distance between teachers and students as well.
129) It's far too easy to use bit.ly's website or a third-party Twitter client to shorten a URL before it ever hits Twitter's web interface to be checked.
130) CONCLUSION The key to decrease TURS is to perform skilly, shorten operating- time and mind stoping bleed in an eqerahon.
131) Results It could reduce operation procedures, economize materials and shorten time.
132) Methods The operation method of cochlear reimplantation was similar to routine cochlear implantation. A "H" incision for the muscle-periosteum was used to shorten the operation time.
133) This paper puts forward to a sort method of quick insertion through trying to shorten the length of insertion sequence.
134) Monitoring your cash flow and taking steps to shorten your cash flow conversion period will go a long ways towards eliminating those dangerous cash flow gaps.
135) It is available to shorten the developing expenditure and the complexity by developing the logistics Container Freight Station information management system on the basis of using J2EE techniques.
136) The bridges have shorten the distance between people, but estrange the distance between people and nature.
137) Postpartum oestrus inducement in milking ewes can shorten the time between yeaning and next pregnancy effectively and use ewes'fertility farthest to enhance economic returns of cultivation.
138) To unbend the arm other muscles in the back of the arm have to shorten.
139) Registration system reform is a necessary way to increase rural laborers' wage, shorten wage differentials, and equal employment in labor market.
140) Similarly, varying load conditions, as the unit load required to respond as quickly as possible, to stress the extent permitted margin shorten response time.
141) Early, large dose use of corticoadrenal hormone can shorten the course of treatment.
142) Conclusion Grading-up clinical service flow-sheet may arrange reasonable the process of visit, shorten obviously the waiting time, increase the whole service level of out-patient clinic.
143) Oilfield practices show that this technology can improve drilling rate and shorten well construction period.
144) Conclusion:Electrotomy with hysteroscope is effective with shorten length of stay, quick recovery and less complications.
145) Results:TYP could significantly increase the urinary output, shorten the latent period of emiction, and reduce the contents of TP in urine and BUN in blood serum.
146) Practice showed that advanced project control can reduce cost, shorten construction period and increase working efficiency.
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147) If a call came in as the service was being replaced, and the unset was called first, there would be a chance that the shorten service could be null transiently.
148) At the saMe tiMe, the controls will reduce the iMpropriate use of systeM resources and shorten the length of executive prograM are tiMe of coMputer loading prograM.
149) The construction based on old salt cavern can not only shorten the construction cycle, but also reduce the construction cost.
150) Objective:To explore a better operating pathway for rhinology operation to shorten the incision, lessen scar and increase the surgical indications.
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