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short Definition
(a)
primarily
temporal
sense
;
indicating
or
being
or
seeming
to
be
limited
in
duration
; "
a
short
life
"; "
a
short
flight
"; "
a
short
holiday
"; "
a
short
story
"; "
only
a
few
short
months
"
(a)
primarily
spatial
sense
;
having
little
length
or
lacking
in
length
; "
short
skirts
"; "
short
hair
"; "
the
board
was
a
foot
short
"; "
a
short
toss
"
(a)
low
in
stature
;
not
tall
; "
his
was
short
and
stocky
"; "
short
in
stature
"; "
a
short
smokestack
"
(a)
not
holding
securities
or
commodities
that
one
sells
in
expectation
of
a
fall
in
prices
; "
a
short
sale
"; "
short
in
cotton
"
(a)
of
speech
sounds
(
especially
vowels
)
of
relatively
short
duration
(
as
e
.
g
.
the
English
vowel
sounds
in
`
pat
'', `
pet
'', `
pit
'', `
pot
'',
putt
'')
(n)
the
location
on
a
baseball
field
where
the
shortstop
is
stationed
(n)
accidental
contact
between
two
points
in
an
electric
circuit
that
have
a
potential
difference
(n)
the
fielding
position
of
the
player
on
a
baseball
team
who
is
stationed
between
2nd
and
3rd
base
(r)
quickly
and
without
warning
; "
he
stopped
suddenly
"
(r)
without
possessing
something
at
the
time
it
is
contractually
sold
; "
he
made
his
fortune
by
selling
short
just
before
the
crash
"
(r)
clean
across
; "
the
car
''
s
axle
snapped
short
"
(r)
at
some
point
or
distance
before
a
goal
is
reached
; "
he
fell
short
of
our
expectations
"
(r)
so
as
to
interrupt
; "
She
took
him
up
short
before
he
could
continue
"
(r)
at
a
disadvantage
; "
I
was
caught
short
"
(r)
tightly
; "
she
caught
him
up
short
on
his
lapel
"
(r)
in
a
curt
,
abrupt
and
discourteous
manner
; "
he
told
me
curtly
to
get
on
with
it
"; "
he
talked
short
with
everyone
"; "
he
said
shortly
that
he
didn
''
t
like
it
"
(s)
not
sufficient
to
meet
a
need
; "
an
inadequate
income
"; "
a
poor
salary
"; "
money
is
short
"; "
on
short
rations
"; "
food
is
in
short
supply
"; "
short
on
experience
"
(s)
containing
a
large
amount
of
shortening
;
therefore
tender
and
easy
to
crumble
or
break
into
flakes
; "
shortbread
is
a
short
crumbly
cookie
"; "
a
short
flaky
pie
crust
"
(s)
less
than
the
correct
or
legal
or
full
amount
often
deliberately
so
; "
a
light
pound
"; "
a
scant
cup
of
sugar
"; "
regularly
gives
short
weight
"
(s)
used
of
syllables
that
are
unaccented
or
of
relatively
brief
duration
(s) (
of
memory
)
deficient
in
retentiveness
or
range
; "
a
short
memory
"
(s)
lacking
foresight
or
scope
; "
a
short
view
of
the
problem
"; "
shortsighted
policies
"; "
shortsighted
critics
derided
the
plan
"; "
myopic
thinking
"
(s)
unwilling
to
endure
; "
she
was
short
with
the
slower
students
"
(s)
quickly
aroused
to
anger
; "
a
hotheaded
commander
"
(s)
most
direct
; "
took
the
shortest
and
most
direct
route
to
town
"
(v)
cheat
someone
by
not
returning
him
enough
money
(v)
create
a
short
-
circuit
in
short Synonyms
abruptly
choleric
curtly
dead
hot-tempered
hotheaded
inadequate
irascible
light
myopic
poor
quick-tempered
scant(p)
short
short circuit
short-change
short-circuit
short-tempered
shortest
shortly
shortsighted
shortstop
suddenly
unawares
unforbearing
unforesightful
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