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Short

adjective
(compar. shorter; superl. shortest)
1.
Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.  "A short flight" , "A short holiday" , "A short story" , "Only a few short months"
2.
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.  "Short hair" , "The board was a foot short" , "A short toss"
3.
Low in stature; not tall.  Synonym: little.  "Short in stature" , "A short smokestack" , "A little man"
4.
Not sufficient to meet a need.  Synonyms: inadequate, poor.  "A poor salary" , "Money is short" , "On short rations" , "Food is in short supply" , "Short on experience"
5.
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.  Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive.
6.
Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.  "Short in cotton"
7.
Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration.
8.
Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.  Synonyms: light, scant.  "A scant cup of sugar" , "Regularly gives short weight"
9.
Lacking foresight or scope.  Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful.  "Shortsighted policies" , "Shortsighted critics derided the plan" , "Myopic thinking"
10.
Tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening.  "A short flaky pie crust"
11.
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.  Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt.  "A curt reply" , "The salesgirl was very short with him"
adverb
1.
Quickly and without warning.  Synonyms: abruptly, dead, suddenly.
2.
Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.
3.
Clean across.
4.
At some point or distance before a goal is reached.
5.
So as to interrupt.
6.
At a disadvantage.  Synonym: unawares.
7.
In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.  Synonyms: curtly, shortly.  "He talked short with everyone" , "He said shortly that he didn't like it"
noun
1.
The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.
2.
Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.  Synonym: short circuit.
3.
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base.  Synonym: shortstop.
verb
1.
Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.  Synonym: short-change.
2.
Create a short circuit in.  Synonym: short-circuit.



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"Short" Quotes from Famous Books



... to feed the dried wavy strands of kelp between the hungry brown furrow lips. They packed the long groove near the stone fence; they rounded past the big boulder that could not be budged; last of all, they filled the short far row in the strangely shaped little field. At noon, Paddy's mother appeared at the half door of the cabin and called in the general direction of the field—it was difficult to see them, for their frieze suits had been dyed in bog water and she could not at once distinguish them ...
— What's the Matter with Ireland? • Ruth Russell

... is not yet in the market, and probably will not be for some time to come. Only three or four samples have been manufactured, and after being subjected to every possible test short of actual service in the hands of troops, it has proved so entirely satisfactory that preparations are now making for its extensive production. Thus far it is known as the Ashcroft rifle, from the name of the proprietor, Mr. E.H. Ashcroft of Boston, the persevering energy ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

... strictly substitutional, or literally vicarious. The old theologies, perplexed and darkened with metaphysics and scholastic logic—the fruit of academic pride and the love of ecclesiastical dominion—labored to prove and to teach that Christ, in his short agony upon the cross, really suffered the pains of sin and bore the actual sum of all the anguish from remorse and guilt due to myriads of sinners, through the ages of eternity.... Our sense of justice and goodness so far as God himself is concerned, is vastly more shocked by ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... orchestra, so he said, only with his eyes: 'My left eye is the first violin, my right eye the second, and if the eye is to have power, one must not wear glasses (as so many bad conductors do), even if one is short-sighted. I,' he admitted confidentially, 'cannot see twelve inches in front of me, but all the same I can make them play as I want, merely by fixing them with my eye.' In some respects the arbitrary way in which he used to arrange his orchestra was really very irrational. From his old days in ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... to your indifferent neighbor, what blind alleys, and deep caverns, and inaccessible mountains! To him who "touches the electric chain wherewith you're darkly bound," your soul sends back an answering thrill. Our little window is opened, and there is short parley. Your ships speak each other now and then in welcome, though imperfect communication; but immediately you strike out again into the great, shoreless sea, over which you must sail forever alone. You may shrink from the far-reaching solitudes ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various


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