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short (n)

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

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short (v)

cheat someone by not returning him enough money

create a short circuit in

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short (a)

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

low in stature; not tall

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

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short (s)

of insufficient quantity to meet a need

less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

lacking foresight or scope

tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

marked by rude or peremptory shortness

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short (r)

quickly and without warning

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

clean across

at some point or distance before a goal is reached

so as to interrupt

at a disadvantage

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

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short (superl.)

Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

Not distant in time; near at hand.

Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

Brittle.

Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

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short (adv.)

Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.

In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

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short (n.)

A summary account.

The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Short, inferior hemp.

Breeches; shortclothes.

A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

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short (v. t.)

To shorten.

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short (v. i.)

To fail; to decrease.

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short

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed, accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

little,Low,small,low-lying,slight,low-slung,Bantam,small,compact,minute

high,lifted,lofty,tall,towering,lofty,big,bulky,Elevated,hefty

shorn => shorn, shorling => Shorling, shorlaceous => shoelacelike, shorl => shorl, shoring up => shoring,

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