сократи́ть — meaning in English
sokratit
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English meaning
- abbreviate verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- contract noun A written or spoken agreement, especially one intended to be enforceable by law.
- 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.
- shorten verb To make something shorter in length, duration, or extent.
- trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
Senses
сократи́ть is used for these senses in English:
- abbreviate (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
- cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- contract (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- curtail (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
- dock (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- downsize (transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
- shorten (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- trim (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
abbreviate — full definition
- verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- verb To speak or write in a brief manner.
- verb To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
- verb To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
cancel — full definition
- verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- verb To make something officially invalid.
- verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
- verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.