short in English

adjective

1

measuring a small distance from end to end.

short, dark hair

synonyms: small, little, tiny, teeny

2

lasting or taking a small amount of time.

visiting London for a short break

synonyms: brief, momentary, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, cursory, fleeting, passing, fugitive, lightning, transitory, transient, ephemeral, quick

3

relatively small in extent.

a short speech

synonyms: concise, brief, succinct, compact, summary, economical, crisp, pithy, epigrammatic, laconic, thumbnail, capsule, abridged, abbreviated, condensed, synoptic, summarized, contracted, truncated, compendious

4

(of a vowel) categorized as short with regard to quality and length (e.g., in standard British English the vowel / ʊ / in good is short as distinct from the long vowel / uː / in food ).

Maybe it's all part of a plan to nullify the threat from the land of the short sharp vowel.

5

(of odds or a chance) reflecting or representing a high level of probability.

they have been backed at short odds to win thousands

6

(of pastry) containing a high proportion of fat to flour and therefore crumbly.

The easiest way to do this with very short pastry is wrap it lightly around the rolling pin, lift the pastry up on the rolling pin, and lay it on top of the fruit.

adverb

1

(chiefly in sports) at, to, or over a relatively small distance.

you go deep and you go short

noun

1

a drink of spirits served in a small measure.

Nicholas said he had drunk about six shorts and other alcohol and had taken heroin in the hours leading up to the encounter.

2

a short film as opposed to a feature film.

Arteta made several well-received shorts and the feature film Star Maps, about a would-be movie star who makes a living selling Hollywood maps - and sex.

3

a person who sells short.

During a downtrend, shorts are selling aggressively while the only participants that are buying are bottom pickers.

4

a mixture of bran and coarse flour.

The diets contained shorts , bran, or flour alone or in combination.

verb

1

short-circuit or cause to short-circuit.

the electrical circuit had shorted out

2

sell (stocks or other securities or commodities) in advance of acquiring them, with the aim of making a profit when the price falls.

Take our investors, for example, who made money shorting financials over the last year.

adjective

small, little, tiny, teeny
small, little, petite, tiny, diminutive, stubby, elfin, dwarfish, midget, pygmy, Lilliputian, minuscule, miniature, pint-sized, vertically challenged, teeny, knee-high to a grasshopper, wee
concise, brief, succinct, compact, summary, economical, crisp, pithy, epigrammatic, laconic, thumbnail, capsule, abridged, abbreviated, condensed, synoptic, summarized, contracted, truncated, compendious
brief, momentary, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, cursory, fleeting, passing, fugitive, lightning, transitory, transient, ephemeral, quick
scarce, in short supply, scant, meager, sparse, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, tight, exiguous
curt, sharp, abrupt, blunt, brusque, terse, offhand, gruff, surly, testy, rude, uncivil, snappy, snappish
brusk, curt, brusque
little
inadequate, poor
scant, light
shortsighted, myopic
forgetful

adverb

abruptly, curtly, unawares
abruptly, suddenly, sharply, all of a sudden, all at once, unexpectedly, without warning, out of the blue
abruptly, suddenly, dead
curtly, shortly
unawares

noun

short circuit, shortstop
short circuit
shortstop

verb

short-circuit, short-change
short-circuit
short-change

Use "short" in a sentence

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2. She has short hair and is rather short.

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5. Short Circuit

6. You're short.

7. Short recoil.

8. Acrylic short fiber and method of dyeing acrylic short fiber

9. Short Covering may be forced if there is a short squeeze

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11. Hollows for short.

12. Rosie for short.

13. Mike, you're short.

14. Short range ballistic.

15. Short-coherence interferometer

16. Short range radios

17. And you're short.

18. A short vowel is a short sound as in the word 'cup'.

19. The first generation Carronades were short, so short that the muzzle of …

20. Achondroplasia is the most common type of short limb (or disproportionately short stature)

21. Aerial feeders have small hind feet, short calcars, short ears, and narrow tragi.

22. Pigs Tiqu short and short, black hair, white lips and individual acromegaly white.

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25. Life is short, brethren.

26. I'm short-sighted too.

27. Lies have short legs.

28. Seem short to you?

29. AnAerobic exercises involve short, …

30. Short Acquaintance brings repentance

31. Allocution translate: short speech

32. Short black guy, right?

33. It's 5 votes short.

34. Short term memory loss...

35. Short acquaintance brings repentance.

36. The American Badger is a heavy-bodied, medium-sized mammal with a broad head, short neck, short legs, and a short bushy tail

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38. I'll make it short.

39. Adjustable short-circuit release

40. Short circuit prevention device

41. It' s # votes short

42. He's a short guy?

43. No, Mallory, they're short.

44. A short-term loan.

45. Brella, short for umbrella.

46. Bobolinks are small songbirds with large, somewhat flat heads, short necks, and short tails

47. The crime short story One last, last branch of crime fiction, the short story.

48. Crowded Short: A trade on the short side with an overwhelmingly large number of participants, which greatly increases the risks of a short squeeze

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