SHRINK | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of shrink in English
shrink verb
(BECOME SMALLER )
The company's profits have shrunk from $5.5 million to $1.25 million.
decrease The tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment. lessen A healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease. lower They've just lowered the age at which you can join. reduce They've just reduced the price. bring down They are bringing down their prices. drop Stock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.
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shrink verb
(BE FRIGHTENED )
(Definition of shrink from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of shrink
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The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
He noted that this contract curve was shrinking as the number of agents was growing, leading eventually to the competitive equilibrium.
As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.
As shrinks further, the only interior equilibrium that still exists is nonmonetary, but it disappears as becomes sufficiently low.
As anticipated, the impact of costs shrinks as the plan grows larger but the effect differs by plan type.
In this case the implementations of functions use interval arithmetic and approximations to transcendental functions that get more accurate as the input interval shrinks.
Since usage counts can increase (by shrinking inlining or record selection) as well as decrease (by any shrinking rule), this might seem dangerous.
In the developed world, many enterprises increasingly operate in situations in which traditional assets, (physical and monetary) are of shrinking importance to business success.
In other words, a base of reduplication is never shrunk down to size in a reduplicative context in order to better satisfy base-reduplicant identity.
In the region of the wake, the plasma shrinks in size, and forms a narrow plasma channel.
The same tendency to form rapidly shrinking sub-sheets was found and described in [27, 36].
Without fanfare, the official consensus estimate of the size of the problem is shrunk.
An object in space possesses three degrees of freedom that determine its spatial relationship with other objects, namely, transition, rotation, and scaling enlargements or shrinking!.
As we can see this is not true, but the difference in the constant in the exponent shrinks surprisingly quickly as m becomes large.
There is also a well-defined temporal sequence where a given cell grows, then exchanges fluid with a neighbouring cell, and then shrinks.
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Translations of shrink
in Chinese (Traditional)
變小, （使）縮小，（使）變小, 受驚嚇…
in Chinese (Simplified)
变小, （使）缩小，（使）变小, 受惊吓…
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encoger, encogerse, reducir…
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encolher, reduzir, recuar…
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आटणे, घसरणे - लहान होणे किंवा एखाद्या गोष्टीला लहान करणे…
縮む（縮める）, 縮小する（させる）, 縮（ちぢ）む / 縮める…
daral(t)mak, çek(tir)mek, küçül(t)mek…
rétrécir, diminuer, se détourner…
encongir(-se), reduir(-se)…
(doen) krimpen, terugdeinzen, terugdeinzen voor…
சிறியதாக மாற, அல்லது சிறியதாக ஏதாவது செய்ய…
krympe, vige tilbage, hjernevrider…
krympa, rygga, dra (gruva) sig för…
mengecut, berundur, mengelak…
schrumpfen, zurückschrecken, sich scheuen…
давати усадку, зсідатися, відскочити…
уменьшать(ся), садиться, психоаналитик…
కుదించు/ చిన్నదిగా మారు లేదా దేనినైనా చిన్నదిగా చేయు…
ছোটো হয়ে যাওয়া, কমে যাওয়া…
srazit (se), couvat, zdráhat se…
mengkerut, menciut, bersembunyi…
co lại, lùi lại, chùn lại…
kurczyć (się), psychiatra, kurczyć się…
restringersi, ridurre, indietreggiare…
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