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| short | (n.) | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed. |
| short, short circuit | (n.) | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference. |
| short, shortstop | (n.) | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base. |
| short, short-change | (v.) | cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
| short, short-circuit | (v.) | create a short circuit in. |
| short | (adj.) | 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" |
| short | (adj.) | (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
| little, short | (adj.) | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| inadequate, poor, short | (adj.) | 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" |
| forgetful, short, unretentive | (adj.) | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.; "a short memory" |
| short | (adj.) | not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" |
| short | (adj.) | of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration.; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" |
| light, scant, short | (adj.) | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" |
| myopic, short, shortsighted, unforesightful | (adj.) | lacking foresight or scope.; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" |
| short | (adj.) | tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening.; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" |
| brusk, brusque, curt, short | (adj.) | marked by rude or peremptory shortness.; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" |
| abruptly, dead, short, suddenly | (adv.) | quickly and without warning.; "he stopped suddenly" |
| short | (adv.) | without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" |
| short | (adv.) | clean across.; "the car's axle snapped short" |
| short | (adv.) | at some point or distance before a goal is reached.; "he fell short of our expectations" |
| short | (adv.) | so as to interrupt.; "She took him up short before he could continue" |
| short, unawares | (adv.) | at a disadvantage.; "I was caught short" |
| curtly, short, shortly | (adv.) | 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" |
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