typistää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abridge verb To deprive; to cut 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 harbour where ships load, unload, or are repaired.
- dwarf noun A person, animal, or plant much smaller than typical for its kind.
- truncate verb To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
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
- verb To deprive; to cut off.
- verb To debar from.
- verb To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
- verb To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
crop — full definition
- noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
- noun A short whip used in horse riding.
- verb To trim or cut something short, or to remove the outer edges of a photograph.