Thumbnail vs Shortened - What's the difference?
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The fingernail on the thumb.
A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).
(chiefly, computing) A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.
(shorten)
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To become shorter.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
* Dryden
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
* Dryden
(nautical) To take in the slack of (a rope).
(nautical) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
Thumbnail is a related term of shortened.
As verbs the difference between thumbnail and shortened
is that thumbnail is to describe concisely while shortened is (shorten).As a noun thumbnail
is the fingernail on the thumb.thumbnail
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*Maven's Word of the Day, December 11, 1997*
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*shorten
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(en verb)- York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
- Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
- to shorten an allowance of food
- Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
