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ABBREVIATION |
Shortening |
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INFULL |
Without omitting or shortening |
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SYSTOLE |
The shortening of the long syllable. |
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CONTRACTION |
The process of shortening an operation. |
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APOCOPATION |
Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated. |
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ABBREVIATORY |
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening;
abridging. |
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ABRIDGEMENT |
Bridge intended, it's said, to geta shortening of the way |
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CORONARY |
Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used
generally to mean heart attack. |
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CONTRACTILITY |
The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle
of contracting or shortening. |
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CUT-OUT |
A species of switch for changing the current from one
circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. |
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RETRACTION |
The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction
of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew. |
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TRIM |
To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip
or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. |
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STOP |
To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing
them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any
way the vibrating part. |
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BRIGADIER GENERAL |
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below
a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a
shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. |
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FAKE |
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear
better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning
his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it. |