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Truncate   Listen
verb
Truncate  v. t.  (past & past part. truncated; pres. part. truncating)  To cut off; to lop; to maim.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Truncate" Quotes from Famous Books



... cylindrical, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. Apex truncate, excavate. Perithecia linear, near apex of stroma. Asci (teste Montagne) linear, 8 spored. Spores (pale) spindle shape, dark, ...
— Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes - Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces • C. G. Lloyd

... relieving the pure spirit within us from its accumulated burdens, from debts and assets both equally oppressive. We cannot disentangle ourselves by mere frivolity, nor by suicide: frivolity would only involve us more deeply in the toils of fate, and suicide would but truncate our misery and leave us for ever a confessed failure. When life is understood to be a process of redemption, its various phases are taken up in turn without haste and without undue attachment; their coming and ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana



Words linked to "Truncate" :   estimate, mathematics, judge, gauge, exchange, truncated, geometry, cut short, maths, math, replace, cut off, approximate, short, truncation, chop off, shorten, substitute, interchange, guess, lop off



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