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Sounds | shao'rt |
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Rhymes | abort, Agincourt, airport, and 45 more rhymes in aort at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Primarily temporal sense. Indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration. |
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Examples | "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" |
Attribute of | duration, length |
Similar | telescoped, shortened; abbreviated, shortened, truncated; brief, little; clipped; fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary; short and sweet; short-dated; short-range; short-run, short-term |
See also | abridged |
Contrary | long |
Meaning | Primarily spatial sense. Having little length or lacking in length. |
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Examples | "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
Attribute of | length |
Similar | abbreviated, brief; close; curtal; sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened; shortish; short-range; short-snouted; snub; stubby; telescoped, shortened; truncate, truncated |
Contrary | long |
Meaning | Low in stature. Not tall. |
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Examples | "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack" |
Attribute of | stature, height |
Similar | chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy; half-length; pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off; squab, squabby |
See also | low; small, little |
Contrary | tall |
Meaning | Not sufficient to meet a need. |
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Examples | "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
Synonyms | inadequate, poor |
Similar to | insufficient, deficient |
Meaning | Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices. |
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Examples | "a short sale"; "short in cotton" |
Category | finance |
Contrary | long |
Meaning | Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt'). |
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Category | phonetics |
Contrary | long |
Meaning | Containing a large amount of shortening. Therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes. |
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Examples | "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" |
Similar to | tender |
Meaning | Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so. |
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Examples | "regularly gives short weight" |
Synonyms | light, scant |
Similar to | insufficient, deficient |
Meaning | Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration. |
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Category | prosody, metrics |
Similar to | unstressed, unaccented |
Meaning | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range. |
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Examples | "a short memory" |
Similar to | unretentive, forgetful |
Meaning | Lacking foresight or scope. |
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Examples | "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan" |
Synonyms | shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic |
Similar to | improvident |
Meaning | Unwilling to endure. |
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Examples | "she was short with the slower students" |
Synonyms | unforbearing |
Similar to | impatient |
Meaning | Quickly aroused to anger. |
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Synonyms | choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
Similar to | ill-natured |
Meaning | Most direct. |
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Examples | "took the shortest and most direct route to town" |
Synonyms | shortest |
Similar to | direct |
Meaning | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness. |
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Examples | "the salesgirl was very short with him" |
Synonyms | brusque, brusk, curt |
Similar to | discourteous |
Adverbs | shortly |
Meaning | The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed. |
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Part of | baseball diamond, diamond, infield |
Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
Meaning | Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference. |
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Synonyms | short circuit |
Part of | circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit |
Broader | contact, tangency |
Verbs | short |
Meaning | The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base. |
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Synonyms | shortstop |
Member of | baseball team |
Broader | position |
Meaning | Quickly and without warning. |
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Synonyms | abruptly, suddenly, dead |
Meaning | Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold. |
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Examples | "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" |
Category | finance |
Meaning | Clean across. |
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Examples | "the car's axle snapped short" |
Meaning | At some point or distance before a goal is reached. |
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Examples | "he fell short of our expectations" |
Meaning | So as to interrupt. |
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Examples | "She took him up short before he could continue" |
Meaning | At a disadvantage. |
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Examples | "I was caught short" |
Synonyms | unawares |
Meaning | Tightly. |
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Examples | "she caught him up short on his lapel" |
Meaning | In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner. |
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Examples | "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" |
Synonyms | curtly, shortly |
Meaning | Cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | short-change |
Broader | victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con |
Meaning | Create a short-circuit in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | short-circuit |
Broader | make, create |
Nouns | short |