[
US
/ˈʃɔɹt/
]
[ UK /ʃˈɔːt/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈɔːt/ ]
VERB
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning him enough money
ADJECTIVE
-
tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
a short flaky pie crust
shortbread is a short crumbly cookie -
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
short skirts
short hair
the board was a foot short
a short toss -
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
a short sale
short in cotton -
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
regularly gives short weight
a scant cup of sugar
a light pound -
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
short on experience
money is short
food is in short supply
on short rations
an inadequate income
the jejune diets of the very poor
a poor salary -
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
a short memory -
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short -
lacking foresight or scope
shortsighted critics derided the plan
shortsighted policies
myopic thinking
a short view of the problem -
low in stature; not tall
a little man
a short smokestack
short in stature
he was short and stocky -
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
a short flight
only a few short months
a short life
a short story
a short holiday -
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
try to cultivate a less brusque manner
a curt reply
the salesgirl was very short with him
ADVERB
-
in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
he said shortly that he didn't like it
he talked short with everyone
he told me curtly to get on with it -
without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash -
quickly and without warning
he stopped suddenly -
so as to interrupt
She took him up short before he could continue -
at a disadvantage
I was caught short -
clean across
the car's axle snapped short -
at some point or distance before a goal is reached
he fell short of our expectations
NOUN
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- 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
How To Use short In A Sentence
- Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
- Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
- I have seen far too many people give up too quickly on their programs after a few short weeks.
- I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
- This being Los Angeles, and me being a hick from the sticks, I was only a few feet away from asking the shorter guy for an autograph, when I chickened out.
- Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
- The cells divide and change until they have a head and short tail, like tadpoles.
- This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep.
