Usually means: Fat used to make pastry.
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  1. shortening: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shortening: Merriam-Webster
  3. shortening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shortening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shortening: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shortening: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shortening, shortening: Wordnik
  8. shortening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shortening: Wiktionary
  10. shortening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shortening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shortening: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shortening: Dictionary.com
  14. shortening: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shortening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shortening (fat), Shortening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shortening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shortening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shortening: Rhymezone
  20. Shortening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shortening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shortening: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shortening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shortening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortening: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. shortening: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. shortening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortening: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shortening: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

Similar:
reduce, abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, expurgate, bowdlerize, cut, contract, Bowdlerise, Crisco, more...

Opposite:
lengthening, elongating, extending

Types:
butter, margarine, lard, tallow, bacon grease, coconut oil, more...

Phrases:
vegetable shortening, cold shortening, shortening contraction, animal shortening, shortening time, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, progressive, fractional, significant, crustal, slight, further, considerable, marked, elastic, gradual

Colors:
    butter,     cream,     ivory,     beige,     vanilla, more...


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Similar:
reduce, abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, expurgate, bowdlerize, cut, contract, Bowdlerise, Crisco, more...

Opposite:
lengthening, elongating, extending

Types:
butter, margarine, lard, tallow, bacon grease, coconut oil, more...

Phrases:
vegetable shortening, cold shortening, shortening contraction, animal shortening, shortening time, URL shortening, shortening of a word, iberian shortening, shortening brand, something used for shortening, more...

Adjectives:
apparent, progressive, fractional, significant, crustal, slight, further, considerable, marked, elastic, gradual

Colors:
    butter,     cream,     ivory,     beige,     vanilla, more...



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