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Definition of Shorteners
1. shortener [n] - See also: shortener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shorteners
Literary usage of Shorteners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Architectural Pottery: Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas by Léon Lefêvre (1900)
"When pulverised these substances form excellent shorteners; they are, ...
The machines used to pulverise these substances for use as shorteners vary ..."
2. Architectural Pottery: Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas by Léon Lefêvre (1900)
"When pulverised these substances form excellent shorteners; they are, ...
The machines used to pulverise these substances for use as shorteners vary ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In organic hemiplegia, the weak leg is held straight and swung forward and
lateralward in a curve (scythe movement), since the weakening of the shorteners ..."
4. A Grammar of the English Language: in a series of letters. Intended for the by William Cobbett (1818)
"Many of these verbs, by being very difficult to contract, have, as in the case
of to kang, to swing, and the like, reduced the shorteners to the necessity ..."
5. A Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters: Intended for the ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1835)
"Many of these verbs, by being very difficult to contract, have, as in the case
of to hang, to swing, and the like, reduced the shorteners to the necessity ..."
6. A Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters: Intended for the by William Cobbett (1832)
"Many of these verbs, by being very difficult to contract, have, as in the case
of to hang, to swing, and the like, reduced the shorteners to the necessity ..."
7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"The spiral stairs, winding screw-like up in a narrow cylindrical space, are life
shorteners. These stairs save space and destroy life, and are quite common ..."
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