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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | insufficient | |
9. | [ adjective ] quickly aroused to anger | |
Synonyms: | irascible hotheaded hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered choleric | |
Examples: | "a hotheaded commander" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | long finance | |
15. | [ adjective ] unwilling to endure | |
Synonyms: | unforbearing | |
Examples: | "she was short with the slower students" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | improvident | |
18. | [ adjective ] (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | |
Examples: | "a short memory" |
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Related terms: | unretentive | |
19. | [ adjective ] most direct | |
Synonyms: | shortest | |
Examples: | "took the shortest and most direct route to town" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | brusque brusque brusque | |
22. | [ adverb ] tightly | |
Examples: | "she caught him up short on his lapel" |
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23. | [ adverb ] at a disadvantage | |
Synonyms: | unawares | |
Examples: | "I was caught short" |
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24. | [ adverb ] so as to interrupt | |
Examples: | "She took him up short before he could continue" |
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25. | [ adverb ] at some point or distance before a goal is reached | |
Examples: | "he fell short of our expectations" |
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26. | [ adverb ] clean across | |
Examples: | "the car's axle snapped short" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | finance | |
28. | [ adjective ] quickly aroused to anger | |
Synonyms: | hot-tempered hotheaded irascible quick-tempered short-tempered choleric | |
Examples: | "a hotheaded commander" |
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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 | |
Similar spelling: |
Shorty Shortt shortia shirt Shrout shirty Sherita Sharita shred sherd shard shroud shrewd shared Sharda sort Sherrod |