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"money is short" "on short rations" "food is in short supply" "short on experience"adjectiveof insufficient quantity to meet a need
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verbcheat someone by not returning him enough money
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"I was caught short"adverbat a disadvantage
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nounthe fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
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"the salesgirl was very short with him"adjectivemarked by rude or peremptory shortness
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"he was short and stocky" "short in stature" "a short smokestack"adjectivelow in stature; not tall
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nounaccidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
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verbcreate a short circuit in
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adverbquickly and without warning
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"regularly gives short weight"adjectiveless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
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"a short memory"adjective(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
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"a short view of the problem" "shortsighted policies" "shortsighted critics derided the plan"adjectivelacking foresight or scope
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"he talked short with everyone" "he said shortly that he didn't like it"adverbin a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
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"a short sale" "short in cotton"adjectivenot holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in pricesOpposite:
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"the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"adjectiveof speech sounds or syllables of relatively short durationOpposite:
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"short skirts" "short hair" "the board was a foot short" "a short toss"adjective(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
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"a short life" "a short flight" "a short holiday" "a short story" "only a few short months"adjectiveprimarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
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"shortbread is a short crumbly cookie" "a short flaky pie crust"adjectivetending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
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"he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"adverbwithout possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- cut shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- shy short
- resume short descriptive summary (of events)
- sketch short descriptive summary (of events)
- survey short descriptive summary (of events)
- rail short for railway
- squat short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
- penguin short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers
- hamster short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
- panty short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)