English to English adjective
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primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration |  | Example: a short life a short flight a short holiday a short story only a few short months
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(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length |  | Example: short skirts short hair the board was a foot short a short toss
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low in stature; not tall |  | Example: he was short and stocky short in stature a short smokestack a little man
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(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range |  | Example: a short memory
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not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices |  | Example: a short sale short in cotton
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of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration |  | Example: the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short
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Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. |  | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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not sufficient to meet a need |  | Example: an inadequate income a poor salary money is short on short rations food is in short supply short on experience
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less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so |  | Example: a light pound a scant cup of sugar regularly gives short weight
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lacking foresight or scope |  | Example: a short view of the problem shortsighted policies shortsighted critics derided the plan myopic thinking
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tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening |  | Example: shortbread is a short crumbly cookie a short flaky pie crust
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marked by rude or peremptory shortness |  | Example: try to cultivate a less brusque manner a curt reply the salesgirl was very short with him
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adverb
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quickly and without warning |  | Example: he stopped suddenly
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without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold |  | Example: he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
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clean across |  | Example: the car's axle snapped short
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at some point or distance before a goal is reached |  | Example: he fell short of our expectations
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so as to interrupt |  | Example: She took him up short before he could continue
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at a disadvantage |  | Example: I was caught short
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in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner |  | Example: 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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In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. |  | source: webster1913
noun
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the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |  | source: wordnet30
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accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |  | source: wordnet30
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the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |  | source: wordnet30
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A summary account. |  | source: webster1913
verb
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cheat someone by not returning him enough money |  | source: wordnet30
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create a short circuit in |  | source: wordnet30
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To shorten. |  | source: webster1913
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To fail; to decrease. |  | source: webster1913
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