Difference between Contracts and Foreshorten

CONTRACTS vs FORESHORTEN: NOUN

A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
Plural form of contract.

To make shorter
To abridge, reduce, contract
Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
To reduce the length of; curtail or abridge.
To shorten the lines of (an object) in a drawing or other representation so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.

In perspective, to represent (a figure) in such a manner as to convey to the mind the impression of the entire length of the object, though only a part of this length is actually shown, as when the object is viewed in an oblique direction; represent (any object, as an arm, a weapon, the branch of a tree) as pointing more or less directly toward the spectator standing in front of the picture, or as in a plane more or less nearly parallel to the spectator's line of sight.

Abbreviate, Squeeze, Press, Foreshorten, Take, Abridge, Shorten, Get, Undertake, Cut, Concentrate, Sign on, Compact, Sign, Fee

Ramify, Confabulate, Beetling, Retrogress, Cogitate, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten

Condense, Abbreviate, Squeeze, Press, Foreshorten, Take, Abridge, Shorten, Get, Undertake, Cut, Sign on, Compact, Sign, Fee

Palliated, Temporize, Ponder, Ramify, Beetling, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten

Most building contracts are commercial contracts under which loss of amenity would not be awarded.
Shorter contracts may offer more flexibility, while longer contracts tend to be cheaper.
Physicians execute such contracts because they are routinely presented as adhesion contracts.
Futures contracts differ from forward contracts in three important ways.
All references to insurance contracts issued also apply to insurance contracts acquired in a transfer or a business combination other than reinsurance contracts held.
Some MOUs are drafted as formal, binding contracts, or so closely resemble contracts in their styllikely interpret them as formal contracts.
TERM CONTRACTS AND EXTENSIONS Term contracts are commodity or service contracts covering a period of time and specifying an estimated quantity.
For commercial contracts between two businesses, standard form contracts are treated the same as negotiated commercial contracts.
So we can say that all contracts are contracts, but not all contracts are contracts.
The term includes contracts commonly referred to as prime vendor support contracts, flexible sustainment contracts, and direct vendor delivery contracts.

We must never let form triumph over substance or let methodology foreshorten our vision and imagination.
Specifically, their food would be nutraloafa tasteless patty, nutritious enough not to foreshorten their lives.
Excessive investigation into a policy problem can foreshorten the time available for inventing possible responses.