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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

... law to others. And the art of words, the high pressure machinery of the writer, the poet's genius, the merchant's steady endurance, the strong will of the statesman who concentrates a thousand dazzling qualities in himself, the general's sword—all these victories, in short, which a single individual will win, that he may tower above the rest of the world, the patrician class is now bound to win and keep exclusively. They must head the new forces as they once headed the material forces; how should they keep the position ...

— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac

... The twenty-four volunteers led the way, climbing with what silence they might, closely followed by a much larger body. When they reached the top they saw in the dim light a cluster of tents at a short distance, and immediately made a dash at them. Vergor leaped from bed and tried to run off, but was shot in the heel and captured. His men, taken by surprise, made little resistance. One or two ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... of it," said Linda quietly, "I can get along with what I have for the short time until the legal settlement of our interests is due. You needn't bother any more ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... the next morning, the robin in the nest above Mary's window stretched out his left wing, opened one eye, and gave a short and rather drowsy chirp, which broke up his night's rest and restored him to the full consciousness that he was a bird with wings and feathers, with a large apple-tree to live in, and all heaven for an estate,—and so, on these ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... to prove a short-lived and pernicious movement. It not only contravened the noblest American precedents, but at once combined all the ends and fragments of parties which had previously opposed the great organization that ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

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