shortening

Converse of object

• cause: This causes a shortening of the hair's growth cycle.
• include: However, the sentence actually includes a shortening of " should have " .
• need: Hold them up against your eyelids to check whether they need shortening.

Converse of subject

• cause: SAD is a type of winter depression and is caused by the shortening of daylight hours and the lack of sunlight.

Adjective modifier

• cold: To avoid cold shortening, meat must not reach 10 o C within 10 hours post mortem in lamb carcasses.
• significant: This confirms that with modern treatment regimens there is no significant shortening of the lifespan with PD.
• crustal: They move deeper rocks over shallower ones and accommodate crustal shortening.
• slight: Similarly, a slight shortening of the route past Colchester meant moving markers toward the west from Manningtree to Harwich.
• further: Stronger hydrogen bonding causes the O···O distance to be shorter, so easing the further shortening required for transfer.

Modifies a noun

• day: Equally, feelings of depression caused by the shortening days may have promoted migration toward more Southern latitudes.

Noun used with modifier

• telomere: However, telomere shortening cannot be the only mechanism involved in aging at the cellular level.
• vegetable: Thus, beef fat is more saturated than chicken fat and vegetable shortening is more saturated than vegetable oil.
• muscle: Thus, almost all of the increase in muscular work associated with running up inclines must occur as a result of increased muscle shortening.
• life: Early identification is a priority if the debilitating, disabling, life shortening and expensive consequences of severe COPD are to be avoided.

Preposition: of

• hour: SAD is a type of winter depression and is caused by the shortening of daylight hours and the lack of sunlight.
• period: The shortening of the analog license periods will have no effect on the duration of the digital replacement licenses.
• life: And we must beware of myths - especially the myth that drug relief invariably means a shortening of life.
• day: I hate the shortening of the days, I don't like working in artificial light.
• time: The specific aim would be the shortening of cycle times and the greater confidence in an acceptable and serviceable product to a higher specification.
• length: We have found that the printing process for the full size plans in the Stearman has produced a shortening of the length.