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To make short or shorter in measure extent or time as to shorten distance to shorten a road to shorten days of calamity...
Shortener
One who or that which shortens...
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63). A most important statute, repealing and re-enacting Lord Brougham's Act of 1850 (13 Vict. c. 21), 'for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament' and other similar Acts, and further shortening such language. By this Act, in Acts passed after 1850, words importing the masculine gender include females, words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular; also, definitions are provided of 'month,' 'land,' 'parish' (see those titles), and other terms.The Act also provides that:-In this Act and in every other Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, references to the Sovereign reigning at the time of the passing of the Act or to the Crown shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the Sovereign for the time being, and this Act shall be binding on the Crown (s. 30).Statutory powers to make rules, etc., may be exercised from time to ti...
additional principal payment
additional principal payment money paid to the lender in addition to the established payment amount used directly against the loan principal to shorten the length of the loan. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Brigadier general
An officer in rank next above a colonel and below a major general He commands a brigade and is sometimes called by a shortening of his title simple a brigadier...
Contract
To draw together or nearer to reduce to a less compass to shorten narrow or lessen as to contract ones sphere of action...
Contraction
The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking the state of being contracted as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendon the contraction produced by cold...
Curtail
To cut off the end or tail or any part of to shorten to abridge to diminish to reduce...
Curtate
Shortened or reduced said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth as measured in the plane of the ecliptic or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic meets the ecliptic...
Cut off
That which cuts off or shortens as a nearer passage or road...
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