short
1. [ adjective ] primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
Examples:

"a short life" "a short flight" "a short holiday" "a short story" "only a few short months"

Related terms: long brief short-run short-run fleeting short-range short-range short_and_sweet clipped short-dated abbreviated short-dated telescoped duration
2. [ adjective ] primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length
Examples:

"short skirts" "short hair" "the board was a foot short" "a short toss"

Related terms: long sawed-off abbreviated sawed-off stubby truncate shortish telescoped short-range short-snouted short-range short-snouted snub curtal close length
3. [ adjective ] low in stature; not tall
Examples:

"his was short and stocky" "short in stature" "a short smokestack"

Related terms: tall chunky half-length pint-size squab half-length pint-size small low stature
4. [ adjective ] not sufficient to meet a need
Synonyms: poor inadequate
Examples:

"an inadequate income" "a poor salary" "money is short" "on short rations" "food is in short supply" "short on experience"

Related terms: insufficient
5. [ noun ] (baseball,geography) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
Related terms: tract baseball_diamond
6. [ adverb ] quickly and without warning
Synonyms: suddenly abruptly dead
Examples:

"he stopped suddenly"

Related terms: sudden abrupt sudden abrupt
7. [ adjective ] (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
Related terms: prosody unstressed
8. [ adjective ] less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Synonyms: scant light
Examples:

"a light pound" "a scant cup of sugar" "regularly gives short weight"

Related terms: insufficient
9. [ adjective ] quickly aroused to anger
Synonyms: irascible hotheaded hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered choleric
Examples:

"a hotheaded commander"

Related terms: ill-natured
10. [ adjective ] containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes
Examples:

"shortbread is a short crumbly cookie" "a short flaky pie crust"

Related terms: tender
11. [ adjective ] (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
Related terms: long phonetics
12. [ verb ] cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Synonyms: short-change
Related terms: swindle
13. [ verb ] create a short-circuit in
Synonyms: short-circuit
Related terms: make short_circuit
14. [ adjective ] (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
Examples:

"a short sale" "short in cotton"

Related terms: long finance
15. [ adjective ] unwilling to endure
Synonyms: unforbearing
Examples:

"she was short with the slower students"

Related terms: impatient
16. [ adjective ] marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Synonyms: brusk curt brusque
Examples:

"try to cultivate a less brusque manner" "a curt reply" "the salesgirl was very short with him"

Related terms: discourteous
17. [ adjective ] lacking foresight or scope
Synonyms: shortsighted myopic unforesightful
Examples:

"a short view of the problem" "shortsighted policies" "shortsighted critics derided the plan" "myopic thinking"

Related terms: improvident
18. [ adjective ] (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
Examples:

"a short memory"

Related terms: unretentive
19. [ adjective ] most direct
Synonyms: shortest
Examples:

"took the shortest and most direct route to town"

Related terms: direct
20. [ noun ] (electricity) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Synonyms: short_circuit
Related terms: contact breakdown circuit
21. [ adverb ] in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
Synonyms: shortly curtly
Examples:

"he told me curtly to get on with it" "he talked short with everyone" "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

Related terms: brusque brusque brusque
22. [ adverb ] tightly
Examples:

"she caught him up short on his lapel"

23. [ adverb ] at a disadvantage
Synonyms: unawares
Examples:

"I was caught short"

24. [ adverb ] so as to interrupt
Examples:

"She took him up short before he could continue"

25. [ adverb ] at some point or distance before a goal is reached
Examples:

"he fell short of our expectations"

26. [ adverb ] clean across
Examples:

"the car's axle snapped short"

27. [ adverb ] (finance) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
Examples:

"he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

Related terms: finance
28. [ adjective ] quickly aroused to anger
Synonyms: hot-tempered hotheaded irascible quick-tempered short-tempered choleric
Examples:

"a hotheaded commander"

Related terms: ill-natured
29. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 550
30. [ noun ] (baseball,sport) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
Synonyms: shortstop
Related terms: position baseball_team
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  shred
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  shrewd
  shared
  Sharda
  sort
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