How To Use Shortened In A Sentence
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Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels
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If you used the shortened form, you'd just say "in-laws' house", but since you're using the full form, it's correct to pluralise the noun and not the modifier ('parents' rather than 'in law'), and then make the entire term possessive, because it's acting as a noun cluster. ("parents-in-law's")
The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
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There they gather short, or editor-shortened, letters in which correspondents with opposing views slug away at each other on a topic selected by the editor.
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The Swahili term of respect for a woman is Bibi (pronounced beebee and sometimes shortened to bi (bee)).
N.D.Y., cats and the name game.
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The play was shortened by the omission of two scenes.
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Copy a URL from a browser window or wherever, type % _tarrow in an IM window, and hit enter - you'll send a tinyarro. ws shortened version of the URL.
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But I am saying that every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture.
Sunday Reading
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
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Lengthy planning and re-planning typically resulted in a shortened development phase, which in turn resulted in the development phase being consistently frantic and reliably late.
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The gun that came out of Devel as a Basic Combat Conversion, shortened and electroless nickeled, looked like it grew that size, but still packed a punch.
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In the eighteenth-century, this conversion shortened production time and reduced the quantity of heat necessary to complete the blue-dyeing process. reference The Saxon blue process (now called indigo sulfonate) creates colors that are bright and beautiful, and visually somewhat different from those obtained through the traditional indigo dyeing methods.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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If you look beneath the carriage, you can see that it has what looks like a shortened needle.
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Dark-blue wall-trained ceanothus can be shortened after flowering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Volume was light and trading volatile as some traders were off for the Jewish new year holiday in an already slow week shortened by Monday's Labor Day holiday.
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The road leading down to the port has been considerably foreshortened by the map-maker.
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Mud was piled everywhere, over the splintered and broken planks that had once formed the deck of the piers and been cast against the rabbled river walls, up almost to the top of the tilted and shortened stone pillars that had comprised the base of the piers.
Colors of Chaos
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It's really shortened the shelf life," says Mr. Dalzell, who is considered to be a real "big noise," or a very important person, among word whizzes like Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary.
As Slang Changes More Rapidly, Expert Has to Watch His Language
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The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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The Portuguese called the guerrillas turras or banditos, while the MPLA guerrillas denoted the Portuguese with the shortened word tugas.
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The seated figures are compact in scale, their chairs and lectern angled and their attributes foreshortened.
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When the saddle height is lowered the set-back of the seat alters, the angle of the knee relative to the pedal changes and the reach to the handlebars is shortened.
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Although they were shortened because of the long introduction, I was still bewildered - and a little unnerved - by the fact that Mme LeFay, our directrice, had started our daily routine… on the very first day.
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By Standard International Trade Classification the seventh kind of product " Machinery and transport equipment"(shortened form "SITC7") have been the most active products in course of trade-off.
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He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.
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Some stages of the Paris-Nice were shortened severely due to heavy snowfall.
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The shortened anteverted femoral neck. contracture are true except that: d.
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Because we are looking down from such a high viewpoint, the figures are foreshortened.
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For example, instant messaging often relies on acronyms and shortened forms of words.
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From one point of view, the rise of the new class involves the priority of thinking — not any thinking, however, but a technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative thinking — over the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society”
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The course has now been shortened considerably.
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In this case, the foreshortened meteor flash is right of frame center, below the curving limb of the Earth and a layer of greenish airglow.
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The - 800's fuselage is shortened by 10 frames (six forward and four aft), which McConnell says requires changes to the geometry of section 13/14 (forward), section 16/18 (rear) and the upper shell of section 15 (centre fuselage).
HEADLINES
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We would be looking for hydrocephalus, an endocardial cushion defect or abdominal wall defect, nuchal fold thickening, a short or absent nasal bone, hydronephrosis, echogenic bowel, shortened humeri or femurs—all markers used in the ultrasound diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Handle with Care
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A shortened time horizon may of course have alarming implications for social and political tolerance.
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(bool? if-true: if-false) shortened to return the evaluated ( "bool" in my case) statement if you supply nothing for the "if-true" part but "bool" actually evaluated to true.
Planet Gentoo
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In such cases, the gait is stilted, that is, there is incomplete advancement of both members and, of course, the period of weight bearing is correspondingly shortened; hence the short strides.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Such support is acceptable for sports -- the etymology of the word fan is a shortened version of fanatic -- but it is inadequate when such support is used to determine one's political allegiance.
Byron Williams: Blind Allegiance Is Good for Sports, Bad for Political Debate
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You could have had odds of 3-1 from Ladbrookes on Tabby to win before the first live heat, but now those odds have shortened even more.
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Generally, all spices except fenugreek and mustard shortened the food transit time.
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The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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One of them, C. robertsi, is eaten in China and Tibet, where it has mysterious names such as the Chinese tung chong ha cho, meaning 'winter worm summer grass' sometimes shortened to tung chong cho, which translates even more puzzlingly as 'winter worm grass'.
Cordyceps
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At this stage also, minor septa and shortened cardinal septum become easily identifiable.
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A shortened and flared slide stop release lever seems like a luxury, and you may be right.
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She will remember her father, who served in both world wars, and whose life was fore-shortened by nervous debility brought on by his experiences.
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And in the 20th century, we shortened that to bunk, and in the 1920s, someone came up with the term debunk as an antidote to bunk.
America In So Many Words
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Secondly, the premium payment term may be shortened suitably.
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When Soviet authorities reviewed his case before a special tribunal in 1956, they shortened his sentence to time already served.
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It was a curious design, like a shortened, blunt spearhead hung upside down.
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The position of the steering gear was lowered and the linkage was shortened to give good linear toe-control and minimal toe-out, improving stability.
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A number of URL shortening sites have added or are adding new features ranging from detailed analytics about who's clicking your links and geographically where they're coming from, to features that "unmask" shortened URLs-so you know where a link will bring you before you click.
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The latter practice may have raised morale, but drastically shortened the torpedoes' range.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Kevin is one of the many people born with shortened limbs after his mother took thalidomide to treat morning sickness during pregnancy.
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The other's clock runs slow and the other's meter stick is foreshortened.
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The word "zine" is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Last year, as his foot and ankle pain increased, he shortened his stride significantly, making it easier for defenders to trip him up.
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A photograph showed a little girl with a twisted hip and shortened leg after more than a year of conventional treatment.
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Praline (a shortened version of "pyrrolidine," which is the name given to the particular atom arrangement in proline's side-chain),
The Human Brain
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Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
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Together, the three celebrations -- All Saints 'Eve, All Saints' Day, and All Souls Day -- were called Hallowmas, and the night before came to be called All-hallows Evening, eventually shortened to "Halloween.
Kenneth C. Davis: Halloween: A Hidden History
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Its name is popularly shortened; rarely is it referred to in its unexpurgated form.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Do you know of any physician who would have diagnosed OI based on the eighteen-week ultrasound of a demineralized calvarium, a shortened femur, and no obvious skeletal fractures?”
Handle with Care
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What you can see to the left of the cromlech is the fence, but foreshortened.
Army Rumour Service
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The neck of the femur is shortened and its angle diminished.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Because the smocking is done as an insert rather than at the top of the skirt front piece, the skirt length will need to be shortened.
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In addition, the category labels have been shortened and no longer necessarily represent the full taxonomic hierarchy, at least in the search results display.
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The mime in Act 1 looked foreshortened - but I'm used to the Peter Wright version which makes much of it.
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The shortened season had reduced income and the reduction of assets had further eroded income.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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Since the 1970s, speakers of American English have notably taken to using a shortened version of cinema in the compound word cineplex.
The English Is Coming!
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(Ps. 150: 4), rendered "stringed instruments;" in Ps. 45: 8, in the form minni, probably the apocopated (i.e., shortened) plural, rendered, Authorized Version, "whereby," and in the
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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No sooner was the sail shortened than we were surrounded by nearly two hundred of them: the men raising their paddles as they approached us, shouting with much exultation, 'chimo! chimo! pillattaa! pillattaa!' expressions probably of friendship, or trade.
The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.
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All eusauropods, in contrast, are characterized by a shortened manus in which each digit bears two or fewer phalanges, and only the pollex bears an ungual.
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He described gastric mucosa extending into the tubular oesophagus as the result of a congenitally shortened oesophagus.
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My breaths shortened considerably, until I audibly gasped for air.
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The longest title reign in heavyweight history is shortened to four years instead of just under 12.
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The north side of the downs is being restored to chalk grassland, with the turf shortened by a large rabbit population and grazing sheep and cattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon.
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Three glass chandeliers hung over a table which had been shortened to fifteen feet for this, more intimate, occasion.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Hybrid teas need to be cut back severely to promote fresh blooming growth; floribundas and grandifloras should also be shortened to about 18 to 24 inches.
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Ms. Wicke calls all this "a corporealization of Dickens 'texts," but we've shortened that to branding.
Madison Ave Journal
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Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee.
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Intervening gemination then would give us a reason why this only occured before word-final supershort schwa and didn't occur before other word-final vowels like *-i or *-ə non-supershort schwa which coincidentally weren't being shortened to oblivion and therefore could not have triggered this gemination.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
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The furrier shortened it into a jacket, and later into a hat, and then a muff, and then a pillow, and finally a button.
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Bethlem's name gave rise to the word bedlam, and comes from a shortened version of St Mary Bethlehem, the name of one of the oldest asylums in the western world.
From Bethlem to Bedlam
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The foreshortened platform encouraged the actors to move back toward the scenic area of the stage.
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Somewhere along the way it was shortened and the suffix 'stein' was removed.
Breaking: Coleman concedes
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He shortened its legs so that it could burrow after rabbits and lengthened them so that it could overhaul the antelope.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long words should be shortened (totes, obv, ridic, tuck, defo) and short words should be lengthened (faberoonie, drinkies, chaterama).
Times, Sunday Times
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The antechapel frescoes, important early examples of humanist civic decoration, reveal Taddeo's taste for challenging foreshortened postures, testimony to his powerful draughtsmanship.
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The time for development of amyloidosis is shortened from several weeks to days in mice after injection of or feeding with extracts from amyloid-laden tissue
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The torculus is seen on the first syllable of adimplens, first syllable of docente (fourth line), etc. On the first syllable of celsa we have the torculus liquescens, the last gravis being shortened.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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This technology is just one of the current ways of allowing physical objects to go online - a concept dubbed the 'Internet of things,' which industry insiders have shortened to IoT.
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She has body dysmorphic disorder, which convinces sufferers they are ugly — and even had her toes shortened.
The Sun
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The British colonies, meanwhile flew the British flag which eventually replaced the fleurs-de-lis when France ceded its colonies to Britain as part of its settlement in the Treaty of Utrecht (any historians may be tearing their hair out over my foreshortened version of Canadian history … sorry … trying to summarise not write a thesis!).
A brief history of the Canadian flag. « Mudpuddle
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Adaptations such as rapid growth and development, shortened prefledging period, and small adult body size enable goslings of high Arctic geese to attain flight and migrate before the fall freeze-up.
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His name is often shortened to Pat.
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Grubb enquired, using the foreshortened soubriquet the Japanese-American hated only marginally less than ET.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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He got this tree up, shortened the stem, shaped the root, shod the point with some of his late old iron; and with this primitive tool, and a thick stake baked at the point, he opened the ground to receive twelve stout uprights, and he drove them with a tremendous mallet made upon what might be called the compendious or Hazelian method; it was a section of a hard tree with a thick shoot growing out of it, which shoot, being shortened, served for the handle.
Foul Play
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Smoking was certainly one of the factors that foreshortened his life.
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The latter point was indeed raised during the foreshortened debate that ensued.
Archive 2009-05-01
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His hopes and ambitions are radically foreshortened.
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Her left forearm and hand, which rest weightlessly on her lap, are gracefully foreshortened.
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The first advance is to a definite number of parts and a permanently shortened axis, in the arrangement termed hypogynous, in which all the whorls are quite distinct from each other.
Darwinism (1889)
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The barrel is cut off just behind the integral front sight boss and the cut off sight with integral boss is bored out and press fit over the shortened barrel's muzzle.
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She shortened the skirt by an inch.
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Ultra undoubtedly shortened the war and helped to ensure victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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a medieval prototype of Winkle, is explained as for "periwinkle," whereas it is a common Middle-English word, existing now in the shortened form wench, and means Child.
The Romance of Names
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I'm going to say the small skull behind it is a raccoon skull minus the mandible, but its hard to tell from this angle as the maxilla is shortened due to the angle.
What Is On My Desk?
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If growth rates are sensitive to such selection, they should be more rapid in this species than in low-latitude or low-altitude congeners, and the nestling period should also be shortened.
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His reception there shortened the odds that he might be the next Tory leader.
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Although a sphere cannot be foreshortened, objects that are on a sphere are foreshortened as the sphere turns.
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One ill-advised, briefcase-swinging charge at a tormentor had earned me forever the nickname Ferdinand the Bull, soon shortened to Ferd the Nerd.
LIGHT FINGERS
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His arm in delivery stride seems shortened, as a probable result of the phobia of hitting the stumps, costing him pace and accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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And that running some network of social programs or schemes on the basis of these (“technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative”) theories runs the risk of destroying “the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society”
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Mutants of this class display shortened hypocotyls and small cotyledons after irradiation of seed.
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It was foreshortened, it was only five days and three days in some of them.
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The goatee is shortened, now, and has an end; formerly it hadn't any, but ran off eastward and arrived nowhere.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Time for her cross-examination by Biden, chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, has also been shortened.
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Along with timed bursts of microwave energy, a roast is cooked, browned evenly and juices sealed in, its cooking time shortened significantly.
Hot Off the Range: Speedcook Ovens « Colleen Anderson
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Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism.
Narrative Strategies
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Urban exploration often shortened as urbex or UE is the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities.
Archive 2008-09-01
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And that story I told you with the penises and the penis envy and the replacement is sort of a very shortened version of the Electra complex.
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His reception there shortened the odds that he might be the next Tory leader.
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Tynan, in contrast, creates a prefacing section entitled ‘Early Irish Writers,’ whose pagination in roman numerals underlines its marginality, and in which shortened biographical sketches are included without any excerpted texts.
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Because the smocking is done as an insert rather than at the top of the skirt front piece, the skirt length will need to be shortened.
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If I'd known this it would have explained how some of our more intimate conversations were foreshortened, by him.
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Therefore, the scanning period is shortened, the scanning frequency and system accuracy are enhanced and the data acquisition reliability is enhanced compared with the prior art.
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Bernanke's remarks suggest the maturity limits could be shortened or "laddered," Swirsky said.
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The elbow is swollen, the fore-arm is shortened, but the triangle between the olecranon, epitrochlear and epicondyle is preserved.
Chapter 8
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And that running some network of social programs or schemes on the basis of these (“technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative”) theories runs the risk of destroying “the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society”
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Shorts is also in the same family of words, conveying the idea of pants that have been cut, shorn, or shortened.
The English Is Coming!
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_Do on_, put on; often shortened into "don"; cf. doff, which is shortened from do off.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
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The latter practice may have raised morale, but drastically shortened the torpedoes' range.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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The penultimate syllable of the name Porsena has been shortened in spite of the authority of Niebuhr, who pronounces, without assigning any ground for his opinion, that Martial was guilty of
Lays of Ancient Rome
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In the year 2000 I had never even heard the term neoconservative, shortened to neocon.
Peace Mom
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
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Japanese etc The Japanese replica uses 21 jewel automatic movement system Fake watches generally use more than 21 jewel system Also the hands are shortened by few millimeters in replica watches Almost all the replica watches are water resistant usually up to 30 feet; the rubber sealing used prevents the water from entering the main body and thus avoids damage to the watch Another distinguishing factor between a replica watch and a fake watch is the functioning of the chronograph which is just for looks purpose in fake watches whereas it functions properly in a replica watch Websites like nowreplica offer a wide range of genuine replica watches to suit one's taste The catalogue available on these websites is updated time and time again so that you get the replica models as soon as they become available Online shopping is of a such a great comfort, the pictures available on the websites are that of the replica watches present in the stock so all you need to do is take your pick, pay online which takes a maximum of two days to process your credit card transaction and if at all you come across any damage to your ordered item, you can exchange it for another one or get it repaired for free or even get your amount refunded The replica watches also come with warranty period, but generally this warranty is just for the 'mechanism only' Once you order a replica watch you need to wait for few days to get your delivery from anywhere around the globe At this great website for watches you'll learn about the style and design, functions and features and mechanical movements of watches in alain silberstein.
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And this collection again demonstrates the utterly deft and assured way Van Gogh manipulated the open-air space, with strangely tilted, compressed and foreshortened geometries of furrowed fields and garden rows rioting in color.
In Philadelphia, Van Gogh's Nature Cure
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Reasons for exclusion from the study included previous cancer, thromboembolic disease, current use of anticoagulants, shortened life expectancy, and desire for future pregnancy.
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Compared with the conventional method, the reaction time was shortened but the yield was comparable.
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Many ancient texts say that depression and even shortened lifespan are due to too much "excretion".
Breaking Murphy's Law» – Breaking Murphy's Law
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I shortened my skirt by 7 inches and lowered the vent by 2 inches because I'm under 5 feet.
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MOSCOW - A new showdown between president and parliament has shortened the fuse on Russia's constitutional time bomb as Moscow waits for Friday's meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
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This was shortened by the early settlers in New England to scuppaug; and afterwards to scup, a better name than porgy (or paugy, as it used to be spelled at New York), and one still in use as a common name.
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The waiting time has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to just one week.
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I couldn't agree more that the preseason is too long and should be shortened.
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Is the King's hand shortened or his word annulled that a man does as he forbiddeth and leaves undone what he commandeth?
Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France
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But counting the odds never shortened them, and he sighed and shook himself.
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What's worse, though, is the fact that the major manufacturers shortened their warranty periods last fall to just one year.
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He has been using his running blades - shortened versions of those used by Paralympics track athletes.
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There was only the vast upcurve of the top-chords and the stupendous down-curve of the bottom-chords and the line between that stood for the foreshortened sixteen hundred feet of bridge-floor level extending from the north shore to the swaying tip of that unanchored north third of the central span.
Out of the Primitive
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[1] In hunting dialect the warning "'ware" or "beware" is shortened to
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
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As we went to press, his odds had shortened to 25-1 to win the Tour de France.
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Music-hall dancers called for shortened skirts, and their high kicks gave more emphasis to the ruffled underside and bloomers than to the exterior of the garments.
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I said I even thought it probable that their vivid feeling anticipated the day, -- that the interval between, so to speak, was "foreshortened" to them; but that
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships still went by the Cape.
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The term is used to describe painted ceilings where the figures or objects are foreshortened in such a way as to give the spectator the illusion of real figures floating above.
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Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation:/ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
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These mutant pupae have defects including shortened or bent legs, bristle defects, a split notum, and wing abnormalities.
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Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism.
Narrative Strategies
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The lower lateral cartilages become shortened at the medial crura and elongated and displaced in the lateral crura.
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Those odds rapidly shortened during the campaign until the last two days when betting closed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The perspective of horses and men then appears to be foreshortened so that they recede into depth.
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A. 2.p. 242), we find that either line of the couplet is shortened by a foot; it is, therefore, majzú.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But, when we became better acquainted — which was while Charker and I were drinking sugar-cane sangaree, which she made in a most excellent manner — I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott.
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
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Sloyan kept Sligo in contention throughout and when he put the game all square with three minutes to play the odds on a home victory shortened.
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After the spring wave of bloom is finished, climbers may have older canes shortened or removed.
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And Austin the shortened version is "poz" and if you're going to a bar looking for sex and you aren't carrying condoms, it ISN'T the other person's responsiblity to hold your hand and take care of you.
Queerty
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The chances are, if you select your utilization sensibly, you inclination earn subvene its cost in a less shortened period of time.
Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
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He unriveted the rear stays, shortened the beam and re-riveted the rear stays on at a radically different angle.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
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No matter how serious minded the intention behind the blog, the Internet forces the writer into shortened, informal style.
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The waiting time has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to just one week.
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I cut the collar off a pink hopsack suit, shortened the sleeves, bought three huge buttons and sewed them on the jacket.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Cestui que (also cestuy que) (English pronunciation: /ˈsɛstwi keɪ/) is a shortened version of cestui a que use le feoffment fuit fait, literally, “The person for whose use the feoffment was made.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
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She is mostly foreshortened, as though to emphasize the disparity between the experience of a child and the outsized world of grown-ups.
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The bars feel a little too wide and, as it happens, are being shortened to reduce vibration.
Times, Sunday Times
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SILVERTHORNE/DILLON - Due to a drop in mail volume, Silverthorne and Dillon post offices have shortened their business hours, said post office staffers.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories
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Looking out from the beach at dusk, the grey murk that had hung over the coast all day severely foreshortened the view.
Country diary: Aberystwyth
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Three glass chandeliers hung over a table which had been shortened to fifteen feet for this, more intimate, occasion.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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It arose from the puritans' custom of wearing their hair cut close round their heads, like apprentices, who shortened their hair to demonstrate their contempt for lovelocks.
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His driving ban has been shortened by a year.
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The course has now been shortened considerably.
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He walked with a lilting gait, his left Achilles tendon apparently shortened, pulling his left heel up.
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Professor Galbraith upbraided me yesterday for my suggestion that our sojourns to Geneva be shortened to six weeks.
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Eastphalian traders, the ancestors of the merchant princes of Hamburg, were known in England by the name of _Easterlings_; and their money being of the purest quality, _easterling_, in Latin esterlingus, shortened to
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
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It is of course a Palandine name, which accounts for the diacritic, but despite the pronunciation and the obvious shortened form, it has nothing to do with the word hawk.
Smallbold vacuums the cat
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It was shaped like a foreshortened E with a heavy stone arch (recumbent lions at its base) to mark the entrance.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Processes to decompose plant matter through chemical or physical techniques had models, for both preparation and results, in indigo and woad. reference Heating, or the addition of fermenting agents, shortened preparation time and ensured that the greatest quantity of color was extracted.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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With the aid of a system of tangents of which I first showed him the rule and the method of construction, my artist has obtained the ordinary cycloid, followed by the interior and the exterior epicycloid and, lastly, the same curves both lengthened and shortened.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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Effects of high blood lead concentrations included reductions in IQ scores, poor school performance, hyperactivity, shortened concentration spans, and behavioural problems.
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Tie them into place, perhaps shortened back, to replace older flowered wood before the wind can rip them off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from
The War in the Air
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Owners might be concerned about lost revenues if the preseason were shortened, but losing a marquee player certainly doesn't help the league put its best product on the field.
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The body is pointed away from the viewer, so that the soles of the feet are closest to the picture plane and the torso and head are foreshortened.
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Ultra undoubtedly shortened the war and helped to ensure victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flowering period of an important early flowerer, the common Birds-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) was even shortened by more than a month due to heavy rain and started flowering early by almost one month.
Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
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Long words should be shortened (totes, obv, ridic, tuck, defo) and short words should be lengthened (faberoonie, drinkies, chaterama).
Times, Sunday Times
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The head is distinct and bears a ring of ocelli (simple eyes), shortened antennae, chewing mouthparts, and a spinneret.
Insecta (Aquatic)
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The words ‘faux bourdon’ were often preceded by the preposition ‘à’ or ‘per’, sometimes ‘au’ even ‘aux’ or ‘in’; the expression might also be shortened to ‘per faulx’ or ‘per bardunum’.
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