shortening

English

Noun

shortening (countable and uncountable, plural shortenings)

(US, cooking) Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry
verbal noun of shorten - a reduction in length

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Translations

reduction in length

French: raccourcissement (fr) m, raccourcissements (fr) m pl
Italian: accorciatura f
Japanese: 短縮 (ja) (tanshuku)

Marathi: मोहन (Mohn)
Russian: сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)

Verb

shortening

present participle of shorten

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