different between shorte vs shorten
shorte
English
Adjective
shorte
- Archaic spelling of short.
Anagrams
- Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, shoter, throes, tosher
Middle English
Adjective
shorte
- Alternative form of schort
shorte From the web:
- what shortens during muscle contraction
- what shortens your period
- what shortens telomeres
- what shortens a cold
- what shortens when a muscle is contracted
- what shortens when a muscle fiber contracts
- what shortening
- what shortens during skeletal muscle contraction
shorten
English
Etymology
From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short +? -en (verbal suffix). In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (“to make short, shorten”), from Old English s?ortian (“to become short”), from Proto-Germanic *skurt?n? (“to shorten”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????t?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /????t?n/
Verb
shorten (third-person singular simple present shortens, present participle shortening, simple past and past participle shortened)
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
- York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- Spoiled of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- to shorten an allowance of food
- 1699, John Dryden, Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond
- Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
- 1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye (volume 2, page 128)
- My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:shorten
Antonyms
- extend
- lengthen
Translations
Anagrams
- Herston, Hornets, Rhotens, Thorens, Thorsen, enhorts, hornets, snoreth, thrones
shorten From the web:
- what shortens during muscle contraction
- what shortens your period
- what shortens when a muscle fiber contracts
- what shortens telomeres
- what shortens a cold
- what shortens your life
- what shortens when a muscle is contracted
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