SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: NOUN
- Any agent that shortens
- N/A
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: VERB
- Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- Make short or shorter
- Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shorten.
- Become short or shorter
- Shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
- To abridge, reduce, contract
- To make shorter
- To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
- Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
- To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
- 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.
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- 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.
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: RELATED WORDS
- Narrows, Shrinks, Diminishes, Lessens, Lowers, Reduces, Bowdlerise, Bowdlerize, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce
- Ramify, Confabulate, Beetling, Retrogress, Cogitate, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Extends, Simplifies, Lengthens, Cuts, Crops, Sarcomere, Decreases, Reduced, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce
- Palliated, Temporize, Ponder, Ramify, Beetling, Contemplate, Ossify, Truncate, Constrain, Contract, Abridge, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce, Shorten
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Shortens or eliminates work the student already knows.
- Interference with the natural rebound always shortens tonalduration.
- Daylight shortens, the waters cool into icy silence.
- Irradiation shortens the shelf life by seven days.
- Partial answer in that it shortens the process.
- This shortens the total supply chain lead time.
- CONS: Extensive use of backlighting shortens battery life.
- Shortens the event a scoreboard, wells fargo arena.
- Smoking shortens life expectancy among persons with SMI.
- Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
- 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.
SHORTENS vs FORESHORTEN: QUESTIONS
- How many units have been built in shortens country estate?
- Can You foreshorten a fixed-term contract by giving notice?