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| short [ shawrt ] |
adjective (comparative short·er, superlative short·est) |
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1. not long: having little or relatively little length or distance
  short hair
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2. not tall: having little or relatively little height
shorter than her sister
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3. not lasting long: lasting for only a small amount of time
a short stay
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4. not seeming long in duration: seeming or imagined not to last very long
in a few short weeks
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5. concise: expressed economically and briefly
a short summary
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6. abbreviated: expressed in fewer words or using fewer letters or characters than the full form
Typo is short for typographical error.
the short form of the word
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7. having less than needed: having less than the amount needed, expected, or thought to be sufficient
The proposal sounded good, but it was short on specifics.
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8. insufficiently long or tall: not long or tall enough by a particular amount
All the beams are six inches short.
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9. not remembering more distant events: unable or unwilling to recall events that happened before the comparatively recent past
a short memory
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10. discourteous: rude and abrupt when speaking to somebody
She was very short with the cashier.
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11. full of fat: made with lots of fat so as to be flaky or crumbly when baked
short pastry
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12. finance stock exchange sold without possessing shares sold: involving a seller who, at the time of sale, does not possess the shares he or she is selling and has to borrow them before being able to deliver. Once the share price has fallen, the short seller buys the shares and returns them to the person from whom they were borrowed, resulting in a gain on the deal.
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13. finance maturing soon: being due for payment or repayment within a comparatively short space of time
a short bond
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14. phonetics pronounced with relatively brief sound: describes phonemes or syllables that, when spoken, are comparatively brief in duration or are categorized as being of this type. The vowel "a" in the word "pat" is short compared with the similar vowel in the word "part."
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adverb |
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1. abruptly: abruptly and unexpectedly
stop short
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2. not reaching target: before reaching a goal, target, or destination
The pass fell three yards short.
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3. finance without actual possession: without actually possessing the things being sold when the sale is agreed on
sell short
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noun (plural shorts) |
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1. movie of short duration: a movie whose running time is approximately 30 minutes or less
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2. electrical engineering
Same as short-circuit
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3. baseball
Same as shortstop
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4. garment size: a size of garment for a short person
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5. U.K. small drink: a drink consisting of a small measure of spirits in a small glass
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informal
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plural noun shorts |
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1. short pants: pants that end somewhere between the upper thigh and the knee
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2. underpants: men's underpants
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3. agriculture mixture of bran and coarse flour: a mixture of bran and coarse flour left over from the milling of wheat
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4. stock exchange short-dated items: bills or securities that are due to mature within a comparatively short space of time
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verb (past and past participle short·ed, present participle short·ing, 3rd person present singular shorts) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb electricity
Same as short-circuit (sense 1)
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2. transitive verb provide with less: to give somebody less than expected or due
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| [ Old English sceort< Indo-European, "to cut"] |
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| short·ness noun |
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for short as an abbreviation or shortened form
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go short to have insufficient money or food
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in short used to introduce a rephrasing of something in a more concise form
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short and sweet pleasant or bearable because brief
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short of
1. not having something, or not having enough of something
2. less than
Nothing short of an apology will do.
3. without actually doing something
praised the candidate, but stopped short of endorsing him
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