1) to make (something) shorter that was first planned (curtail)

2) the place of an actual or imagined event; a view; one of the parts, shorter than an act, into which some plays and operas are divided (scene)

3) (to cause something) to become shorter (shorten)

4) a long instrument with lenses, used to make distant objects appear nearer and larger; (to cause something) to become come shorter by having sections that slide into each other (telescope)