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Shortcake
- noun - very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream
Shortcuts
- noun - a route shorter than the usual one
Shortened
- verb - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
- with parts removed; "the drastically cut
Shortener
- noun - any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of life"
Shortfall
- noun - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
SHORTHAIR
- unknown - A domestic short-haired cat is a cat of mixed ancestry – thus not belonging to any particular recognized cat breed – possessing a coat of short fur. In British English, they are often referred to as moggies. Wikipedia
Common nicknames: moggie, mutt
Shorthand
- adjective - a method of writing rapidly
- written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
Shorthead
- - A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Shorthorn
- noun - English breed of short-horned cattle
Shortlist
- noun - a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
- put someone or something on a short list
- Whittled down to a few