typistää — meaning in English

English meaning

• abridge verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
• crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
• curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
• dock noun A structure at a harbor where ships load, unload, or are repaired.
• dwarf noun A person, animal, or plant much smaller than typical for its kind.
• truncate verb To make something shorter by cutting a part off the end.

Senses

typistää is used for these senses in English:

• abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
• crop (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
• curtail (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of (an animal).
• dock (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
• dwarf To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
• truncate (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
• truncate (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
• truncate (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).

abridge — full definition

1. verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
2. verb To stop someone from having or doing something.
3. verb To make something shorter in length or time.
4. verb To make a piece of writing shorter while keeping its main meaning.

crop — full definition

1. noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
2. noun A short whip used in horse riding.
3. verb To trim or cut something short, or to remove the outer edges of a photograph.

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