| short [a] |
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| 1) | primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" |
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| abbreviated brief clipped fleeting short-dated short-range short-run duration long shortened short_and_sweet |
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| 2) | primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
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| abbreviated close curtal sawed-off shortish short-range short-snouted shortened length long snub stubby truncate |
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| 3) | low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack" |
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| chunky half-length little low pint-size squab height tall |
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| 4) | not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
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| Synonyms : | inadequate poor |
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| deficient |
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| 5) | not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" |
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| finance long |
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| 6) | of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') |
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| phonetics long |
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| 7) | containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" |
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| 8) | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" |
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| Synonyms : | light scant |
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| deficient |
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| 9) | used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration |
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| unaccented metrics |
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| 10) | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" |
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| forgetful |
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| 11) | lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" |
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| Synonyms : | myopic shortsighted unforesightful |
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| improvident |
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| 12) | unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students" |
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| Synonyms : | unforbearing |
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| impatient |
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| 13) | quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" |
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| Synonyms : | choleric hot-tempered hotheaded irascible quick-tempered short-tempered |
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| ill-natured |
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| 14) | most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town" |
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| Synonyms : | shortest |
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| 15) | marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" |
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| Synonyms : | brusk brusque curt |
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| discourteous |
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| short [r] |
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| 1) | quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" |
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| Synonyms : | abruptly dead suddenly |
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| sudden abrupt |
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| 2) | without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" |
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| finance |
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| 3) | clean across; "the car's axle snapped short" |
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| 4) | at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations" |
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| 5) | so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue" |
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| 6) | at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" |
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| Synonyms : | unawares |
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| 7) | tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel" |
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| 8) | in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "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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| Synonyms : | curtly shortly |
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| brusk |
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| short [n] |
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| 1) | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
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| parcel baseball_diamond |
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| 2) | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
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| Synonyms : | short_circuit |
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| contact circuit |
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| 3) | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base |
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| Synonyms : | shortstop |
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| position baseball_team |
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| short [v] |
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| 1) | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
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| Synonyms : | short-change |
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| 2) | create a short-circuit in |
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| Synonyms : | short-circuit |
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| create |
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