Difference between Shorten and Restrict

SHORTEN vs RESTRICT: ADJECTIVE

To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To become short or shorter.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To make short or shorter.

To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time

To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.

To prevent (a person or thing) from passing a certain limit in any kind of action; limit; restrain.
To attach limitations to (a proposition or conception), so that it shall not apply to all the subjects to which it would otherwise seem to apply: as, a restricted sense of a word.
Synonyms Repress, etc. (see restrain), hedge in.
Place limits on (extent or amount or access)
Prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed
Place under restrictions
Limit access to

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Restrictions, Restriction, Regulate, Limiting, Prohibit, Cut back, Throttle, Bound, Qualify, Trammel, Restrain, Confine, Curb, Limit, Curtail

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Constrict, Impede, Constrain, Restriction, Limiting, Prohibit, Cut back, Throttle, Bound, Qualify, Restrain, Confine, Curb, Limit, Curtail

Long pipe runs and elbows restrict water flow.
In Which NYS Agency Restrict by Date Posted.
Local authorities may prohibit or restrict their use.
We restrict certain activity to protect our community.
SWIC may restrict your access to online services.
Restrict content, manage member subscriptions with recurring payments.
In the same way you used SQL Server WHERE clause to restrict rows, you use the SQL Server HAVING clause to restrict groups.
Within either configuration you enable Restrict Internet communications you will restrict all Internet Communication within the Internet Communication setting node.
These security zones will not restrict the main navigational channel nor will it restrict vessels from transiting through the channel.
Arterial defects that restrict movement cause pressure in the left atrium and pulmonary circuit to increase, and thus restrict pulmonary blood flow.