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truncate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb truncate has 3 senses
- truncate(v = verb.possession) Array - replace a corner by a plane; Array is one way to exchange, interchange, replace, substitute
- truncate(v = verb.cognition) Array - approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series" is one way to approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge
- truncate(v = verb.change) cut short - make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" is one way to shorten
Derived form noun truncation2
Sample sentence:
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Derived form noun truncation3
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
Adjective truncate has 1 sense
- truncate(s = adj.all) truncated - terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
CIDE DICTIONARY
truncate, v. t. [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk.].
To cut off; to lop; to maim. [1913 Webster]
truncate, a. [L. truncatus, p. p. ].
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
truncate, v. & adj.
--v.tr.
1 cut the top or the end from (a tree, a body, a piece of writing, etc.).
2 Crystallog. replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane.
--adj. Bot. & Zool. (of a leaf or feather etc.) ending abruptly as if cut off at the base or tip.
--v.tr.
1 cut the top or the end from (a tree, a body, a piece of writing, etc.).
2 Crystallog. replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane.
--adj. Bot. & Zool. (of a leaf or feather etc.) ending abruptly as if cut off at the base or tip.
Derivative
truncately adv. truncation n.
Etymology
L truncare truncat- maim
THESAURUS
truncate
abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, blemish, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, deface, deform, disfigure, disproportion, dock, elide, eliminate, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, foreshorten, isolate, knock off, lop, mar, misshape, mow, mutilate, nip, pare, peel, pick out, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, root out, rule out, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, take off, take out, telescope, top, trim, wipe outROGET THESAURUS
truncate
Shortness
VB be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten (in drawing).Amorphism
VB deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate, derange, blemish, mar.
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