Truncated vs Curtail - What's the difference?
truncated | curtail |
Deprived of one of its parts or of its end.
(truncate)
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
As verbs the difference between truncated and curtail
is that truncated is past tense of truncate while curtail is to cut short the tail of an animal.As an adjective truncated
is deprived of one of its parts or of its end.As a noun curtail is
a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.truncated
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*curtail
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(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.