short
IPA: ʃˈɔrt
noun
- A short circuit.
- A short film.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- (finance) A short seller.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- A summary account.
- (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- (US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States.
- A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States.
verb
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive) To shortchange.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (obsolete) To shorten.
adjective
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
- Having little duration.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
- (cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- (baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
adverb
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Unawares.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
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Examples of "short" in Sentences
- The route follows the short length of the shoreline.
- The discussion was prematurely cut short by the redirect.
- The cortege then travelled the short distance to Stormont.
- Sylvain died in quicksand a short distance from the shore.
- The most common complaint was the short length of the game.
- Sylvain died in quicksand, a short distance from the shore.
- The only real disadvantage is the comparatively short length.
- In short, the length and the coherence of extracts should be balanced.
- The short length of wall on the right is the end wall of the wheelpit.
- The two routes are concurrent for a short distance in the town of Greenwood.
- Talk to real estate professionals and many might suggest the term short sale be changed to "long sale."
- The Democrats 'message, in short, is that the Democrats are really lousy at delivering a convincing message.
- War, in short, is good for a lot of spin-offs and ancillary benefits -- to some segments of society, at least.
- But then I had to deal with the fact I’d never done a comic before – so I had to learn how to do that, and how to write short ones and 10 pages is *short*.
- HIToolbox 0x91537e3a SendControlDefTrack (HIView*, CGPoint const&, unsigned long*, void (*) (OpaqueControlRef*, short), OpaqueEventRef*, short*) + 311 25 com. apple.
- A link with rev = canonical that is short is a short url of the canonical url by definition, thus rel = short* is redundant for the use case of discovering a short url for the canonical url of some document.
- If you’ve locked the screen, sliding the keyboard out automatically unlocks, and if the keyboard is out for a short time don’t know what a ’short time’ is yet, the screen will re-lock when the keyboard is stowed.
- Sometimes they are compared by the _Adverbs_ _very, infinitely_; and the _Adjectives_ _more, most_; _less, least_; as _long, very long, infinitely long_; _short, more short, most short_; _commonly, less commonly, least commonly_.
- I refer downright beastly gluttons and drunkards to this; but indulgence short, _far short_, of this gross and really nasty drunkenness and gluttony is to be deprecated, and that, too, with the more earnestness because it is too often looked upon as being no crime at all, and as having nothing blameable in it; nay, there are many persons who _pride_ themselves on their refined taste in matters connected with eating and drinking: so far from being ashamed of employing their thoughts on the subject, it is their boast that they do it.
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