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Перевод: shortening

[существительное]
укорачивание; сокращение; урезывание; жир, добавляемый в тесто для рассыпчатости

Тезаурус:

1. However such farmers were necessarily exceptions within a farming community where shortening bush/fallow cycles were retained; they did not provide a solution to the underlying problem.
2. It provides criteria for notification, a workable timetable (which could, however, be improved by shortening the time limits) and a system for authorising mergers if the parties modify their plans or give undertakings.
3. In essence this meant: (1) lengthening the 10th by re-siting the green to its present position from its earlier one part way down the fairway; (2) shortening the 11th to its present par 3 from its previous 4.
4. The construction of the Suez Canal - which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents - was commenced in 1859, the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his " Origins of Species" which provoked a great deal of controversy.
5. Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used, the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency, thereby shortening the wavelength.
6. The abolition of examinations, shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge, among other features of the Cultural Revolution period, led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao's goal of an egalitarian higher education system.
7. Reversal of the stress field at the end of the Cretaceous and culminating in the Miocene led to crustal shortening accommodated on the same listric faults, accentuating existing rollover anticlines and causing inversion.
8. IT is easy to see the word fan as a simple shortening of fanatic, but the origin actually lies in the old name for the followers of any sport.
9. The most colourful is Anthony Scrivener QC, on whom the odds are suddenly shortening.
10. A whole complex system of muscles is brought into play for each movement of the body: bending an arm involves the shortening of the biceps, while the tricep muscles at the back of the arm must relax and lengthen in unison.
11. With regard to pruning, Miller advised removal of dead wood in the autumn, shortening of over-luxuriant branches and exposure of all parts of the plant to maximum light and air.
12. This intercutting of separate actions tells the story more vividly, and it allows the editor to "telescope time" by shortening the length of the shots at the cuts.
13. A whole complex system of muscles is brought into paly for each movement of the body: bending an arm involves the shortening of the biceps, while the tricep muscles at the back of the arm must relax and lengthen in unison.