Acortar in english
Shorten
pronunciation: ʃɔrtən part of speech: verb
pronunciation: ʃɔrtən part of speech: verb
In gestures
acortarse = grow + shorter ; get + shorter.
Example: With days growing shorter, time was precious, and man was reminded of the long darkness ahead.Example: As the days get shorter and summer winds down, allergy sufferers begin another period of sniffling and sneezing with the start of ragweed season.acortar = curtail ; shorten ; truncate ; conflate ; foreshorten ; cut + Nombre + short ; abridge ; abbreviate ; cut across ; make + Nombre + shorter ; cut off + short.
Example: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.Example: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.Example: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.Example: Authors did not always read proofs; revises might be omitted and routines conflated.Example: Medicine also needs to reconsider whether actions that foreshorten life can be normative and permissible.Example: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.Example: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.Example: The Dewey Decimal Classification (abbreviated to either DC or DDC) is arguably the most important bibliographic classification scheme.Example: He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.Example: I apologize for the length of this letter but I didn't have time to make it shorter.Example: They came to him whole and left blind, rickety, hunchbacked, pigeon-breasted, or with arms or legs cut off short.more:
» acortar las diferencias = close + the gap .
Example: During the 19 years that statistics have been gathered women have been gradually closing the earnings gap.» acortar las distancias = close + the gap .
Example: During the 19 years that statistics have been gathered women have been gradually closing the earnings gap.» acortar las distancias entre... y... = narrow + the gap between ... and .
Example: Their goal is to relate abstract management principles and theories to actual management practice, and to help narrow the gap between the classroom and the real world.» acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short .
Example: On average, men who smoke cut their lives short by 13.2 years, and female smokers lose 14.5 years.» acortarse = grow + shorter ; get + shorter .
Example: With days growing shorter, time was precious, and man was reminded of the long darkness ahead. Example: As the days get shorter and summer winds down, allergy sufferers begin another period of sniffling and sneezing with the start of ragweed season.