shortening

English

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Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

1. (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
2. verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.

   Antonyms: extension, lengthening

Usage notes

In older texts, the term shortening referred to any fat solid at room temperature, including butter, margarine and lard, but in more recent usage it is usually understood to refer to vegetable shortening.

Derived terms

• shortening time
• vegetable shortening

Translations

solid fat

• Esperanto: vegetaĵa graso, vegetalino
• Finnish: leivontarasva
• French: graisse alimentaire f
• German: Pflanzenfett (de) n, Backfett n
• Hungarian: margarin (hu), főzőmargarin (hu), növényi zsír/zsiradék
• Indonesian: lemak reroti, mentega putih (literally “white butter”)
• Swedish: no equivalent term in Swedish, but see fast matfett (literally “solid cooking fat”)
• Yiddish: באַקפֿעטס (bakfets), געשמילץ (geshmilts)

reduction in length

• Bulgarian: скъсяване (bg) n (skǎsjavane), съкращаване (bg) n (sǎkraštavane)
• Catalan: escurçada (ca) f, escurçament m
• Finnish: lyheneminen (fi), lyhentäminen (fi)
• French: raccourcissement (fr) m, raccourcissements (fr) m pl
• German: Verkürzung (de) f, Schrumpfung f, Verkürzen n, Schrumpfen n, Stauchung f, Stauchen n, Kürzung (de) f, Kürzen n
• Greek: βράχυνση (el) f (vráchynsi), σύμπτυξη (el) f (sýmptyxi), κόντεμα (el) n (kóntema)
• Hungarian: rövidítés (hu), rövidülés (hu)
• Indonesian: pemendekan (id)
• Italian: accorciatura (it) f
• Japanese: 短縮 (ja) (tanshuku)
• Marathi: मोहन (mohan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forkortning m, abbreviasjon (no) m

• Portuguese: encurtamento (pt) m
• Russian: сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)
• Spanish: acortamiento (es) m
• Swedish: förkortning (sv) c

Verb

shortening

1. present participle and gerund of shorten

Anagrams

• Heringtons

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shortening.

Noun

shortening n (uncountable)

1. shortening

Declension

Declension of shortening

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	shortening	shorteningul
genitive-dative	shortening	shorteningului
vocative	shorteningule