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Short

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Definitions for Short

noun
the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
noun
accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Synonyms
short circuit
noun
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Synonyms
shortstop
verb
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Synonyms
short-change
verb
create a short circuit in
Synonyms
short-circuit
adjective
primarily temporal sense
Examples
  1. indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
  2. a short life
  3. a short flight
  4. a short holiday
  5. a short story
  6. only a few short months
adjective
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
Examples
  1. short skirts
  2. short hair
  3. the board was a foot short
  4. a short toss
adjective
low in stature
Synonyms
little
Examples
  1. not tall
  2. he was short and stocky
  3. short in stature
  4. a short smokestack
  5. a little man
adjective
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
Synonyms
inadequate poor jejune
Examples
  1. an inadequate income
  2. a poor salary
  3. money is short
  4. on short rations
  5. food is in short supply
  6. short on experience
  7. the jejune diets of the very poor
adjective
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
Synonyms
unretentive forgetful
Examples
  1. a short memory
adjective
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
Examples
  1. a short sale
  2. short in cotton
adjective
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
Examples
  1. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short
adjective
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Synonyms
light scant(p)
Examples
  1. a light pound
  2. a scant cup of sugar
  3. regularly gives short weight
adjective
lacking foresight or scope
Synonyms
shortsighted unforesightful myopic
Examples
  1. a short view of the problem
  2. shortsighted policies
  3. shortsighted critics derided the plan
  4. myopic thinking
adjective
tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
Examples
  1. shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
  2. a short flaky pie crust
adjective
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Synonyms
brusque brusk curt short(p)
Examples
  1. try to cultivate a less brusque manner
  2. a curt reply
  3. the salesgirl was very short with him
adverb
quickly and without warning
Synonyms
abruptly suddenly dead
Examples
  1. he stopped suddenly
adverb
without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
Examples
  1. he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
adverb
clean across
Examples
  1. the car's axle snapped short
adverb
at some point or distance before a goal is reached
Examples
  1. he fell short of our expectations
adverb
so as to interrupt
Examples
  1. She took him up short before he could continue
adverb
at a disadvantage
Synonyms
unawares
Examples
  1. I was caught short
adverb
in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
Synonyms
curtly shortly
Examples
  1. he told me curtly to get on with it
  2. he talked short with everyone
  3. he said shortly that he didn't like it

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