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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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