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Meaning of "shortener" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHORTENER

shortener  [ˈʃɔːtənə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHORTENER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shortener is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHORTENER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shortener in the English dictionary

The definition of shortener in the dictionary is something that shortens something.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHORTENER


battener
ˈbætənə
brightener
ˈbraɪtənə
buttoner
ˈbʌtənə
Easterner
ˈiːstənə
Ecbatana
ɛkˈbætənə
enlightener
ɪnˈlaɪtənə
fattener
ˈfætənə
frightener
ˈfraɪtənə
heartener
ˈhɑːtənə
kindergartener
ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtənə
lightener
ˈlaɪtənə
Midwesterner
ˈmɪdˈwɛstənə
quietener
ˈkwaɪətənə
straightener
ˈstreɪtənə
sweetener
ˈswiːtənə
threatener
ˈθrɛtənə
tightener
ˈtaɪtənə
wantoner
ˈwɒntənə
westerner
ˈwɛstənə
whitener
ˈwaɪtənə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHORTENER

shortage
shortarm
shortboard
shortbread
shortcake
shortcoming
shortcrust pastry
shortcutting
shorten
shorten the reins
shortening
Shorter Catechism
shortfall
shortgown
shorthair
shorthand
shorthand notebook
shorthand notes
shorthand typing
shorthand typist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHORTENER

bottle-opener
chastener
christener
coffee whitener
dome fastener
fastener
flattener
hastener
listener
moistener
optical brightener
paper fastener
patent fastener
rattener
slide fastener
snap fastener
softener
Velcro fastener
water softener
zip fastener

Synonyms and antonyms of shortener in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shortener» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHORTENER

Find out the translation of shortener to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shortener from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shortener» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缩短服务
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acortador
570 millions of speakers

English

shortener
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

shortener
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المقلل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Shortener
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

encurtador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংক্ষেপনকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raccourcisseur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemendek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kürzer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

短縮サービス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단축기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shortener
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shortener
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Shortener
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शॉर्टनर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kısaltıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

shortener
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skracania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Shortener
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

shortener
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shortener
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

shortener
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Shortener
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

short
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shortener

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORTENER»

The term «shortener» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.563 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHORTENER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shortener

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QUOTES WITH «SHORTENER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shortener.
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Aaron Patzer
Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHORTENER»

Discover the use of shortener in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shortener and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Popular Mechanics
Purchase an emergency brake cable shortener, available at auto parts supply stores, and install it on the vertical suspension cable at the rear right corner of the machine. By shortening this cable, the tub wiU lift and narrow the gap between the ...
2
PHP Master: Write Cutting-edge Code
First, we havetoupdateourpackager.phpscriptandchangethefollowing: $package- >setChannel('pear.php.net'); // becomes: $package->setChannel('pear.local'); Next, run the packager again: $ php packager.php Analyzing Shortener/Bitly.php  ...
Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik, Matthew Turland, 2011
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Clojure Programming
Example 17-6. com.clojurebook.url-shortener.beanstalk (ns com.clojurebook.url- shortener.beanstalk (:use [compojure.core :only (HEAD defroutes)]) (:require [ com.clojurebook.url-shortener :as shortener] [compojure.core :as compojure])) ...
Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand, 2012
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HBase: The Definitive Guide
Shortener. Looking at each feature HBase offers separately is a good way to understand what it does. The book uses code examples that set up a very specific set of tables, which contain an equally specific set of data. This makes it easy to ...
Lars George, 2011
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Blogging All-in-One For Dummies
Using a URL shortener takes just a few seconds. You can create a free account on most URL shortener websites, which allows you to track the number of clicks on your published shortened URLs, or you can use some URL shortener websites ...
Susan Gunelius, 2012
6
System Identification (SYSID '03): A Proceedings Volume from ...
This substantiates the use of a channel shortener. However, the channel is presumed time invariant (aside from glacially-paced, temperature-induced, performance-degrading channel parameter drifts which occur in practice), which obviates ...
P. M. J. van den Hof, Bo Wahlberg, Siep Weiland, 2004
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Social Boom!: How to Master Business Social Media to Brand ...
Use a URL shortener to reduce the URL or website address size. Twitter has a limit of 140 characters. You need as many characters as possible to get your point across. If you have a web address that is 110 characters long, then you have ...
Jeffrey H. Gitomer, 2011
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Twitter For Dummies
... Type: URL shortener. You can use Twitter to link to one URL, but LinkBunch offers a URL shortener for bundles of links. It takes several links and shortens them Twitter For Dummies, Pocket Edition ...
Laura Fitton, 2012
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Laravel Application Development Blueprints
Building a URL Shortener Website Throughoutthebook,wewillbe usingtheLaravelPHP framework to builddifferenttypesofweb projects. In this chapter, we'll see how to build a URL Shortener website with thebasicsof Laravel framework.
Arda Kılıçdağı, Halil İbrahim Yılmaz, 2013
10
QR Codes For Dummies
A URL shortener is often for services such as Twitter where the number of characters matter. However, the value of a URL shortener for QR Codes has to do with density. Because the URL is encoded within the black modules that comprise a ...
Joe Waters, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHORTENER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shortener is used in the context of the following news items.
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Turkey blocks popular URL shortener due to 'technical error'
Turkish authorities have told daily Hürriyet that they blocked access to a popular link shortening service due to a "technical error," causing a brief outage that ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Apr 15»
2
Feedly has killed its URL shortener as part of its mobile and Web …
Feedly has removed its URL shortener to provide better transparency for users, alongside making a few other tweaks to better optimize its mobile apps for the ... «The Next Web, Oct 14»
3
Shrturl.co: You'll never trust a shortened URL again
Shrturl.co is a shortener that allows you to edit the page that its shortened URLs link to. It works like this: you visit shrturl.co, enter a page URL and press the big ... «The Next Web, Jun 14»
4
Google URL Shortener Now Available as Free Android App
Once you've shared a link, Google's URL shortener also offers colorful analytics to show which links are shared the most and why. You can also use the app to ... «TechnoBuffalo, Mar 14»
5
Feedly Launches URL Shortener For Sharing What You Read With …
The Feedly URL shortener also automatically generates Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ metadata (title, summary, source, visual) for the articles you are sharing ... «MakeUseOf, Jan 14»
6
President Obama's Twitter account compromised after Syrian group …
Rather, it breached the link-shortener tool, which send out truncated links to Internet ... The tool, a custom third-party link-shortener, was used by the President's ... «New York Daily News, Oct 13»
7
Yahoo Acquires Bread, and Now the URL Shortener Is Toast
Yahoo has acquired Bread, a URL shortener whose links included interstitial ads designed by the person who shortened them. The service has shut down as of ... «Mashable, Oct 13»
8
Spammers abuse .gov URL shortener service in work-at-home scams
Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for ... «PCWorld, Oct 12»
9
Dropbox's URL shortener abused by spammers
Spammers are abusing a Dropbox feature that lets users share a shortened link, directing people to websites selling questionable pharmaceuticals, according to ... «InfoWorld, Mar 12»
10
Google Introduces an Official URL Shortener for Google Pages Only
For awhile, Google's been using their own goo.gl shortener to compress long links, but as of today they'll be using a different shortener, g.co. However, the goal ... «Lifehacker, Jul 11»

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