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Meaning of word short from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

short   noun

Meaning : The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.

Meaning : Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.

Synonyms : short circuit

Meaning : The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base.

Synonyms : shortstop

short   verb

Meaning : Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.

Synonyms : short-change

Meaning : Create a short circuit in.

Synonyms : short-circuit

short   adverb

Meaning : Quickly and without warning.

Example : He stopped suddenly.

Synonyms : abruptly, dead, suddenly

Meaning : Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.

Example : He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash.

Meaning : Clean across.

Example : The car's axle snapped short.

Meaning : At some point or distance before a goal is reached.

Example : He fell short of our expectations.

Meaning : So as to interrupt.

Example : She took him up short before he could continue.

Meaning : At a disadvantage.

Example : I was caught short.

Synonyms : unawares

Meaning : In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.

Example : He told me curtly to get on with it.
He talked short with everyone.
He said shortly that he didn't like it.

Synonyms : curtly, shortly

short   adjective

Meaning : Primarily temporal sense. Indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.

Example : A short life.
A short flight.
A short holiday.
A short story.
Only a few short months.

Primarily temporal sense. Being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.

A long life.
A long boring speech.
A long time.
A long friendship.
A long game.
Long ago.
An hour long.
long

Meaning : (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.

Example : Short skirts.
Short hair.
The board was a foot short.
A short toss.

Primarily spatial sense. Of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.

A long road.
A long distance.
Contained many long words.
Ten miles long.
long

Meaning : Low in stature. Not tall.

Example : He was short and stocky.
Short in stature.
A short smokestack.
A little man.

Synonyms : little

Great in vertical dimension. High in stature.

Tall people.
Tall buildings.
Tall trees.
Tall ships.
tall

Meaning : Of insufficient quantity to meet a need.

Example : An inadequate income.
A poor salary.
Money is short.
On short rations.
Food is in short supply.
Short on experience.
The jejune diets of the very poor.

Synonyms : inadequate, jejune, poor

Meaning : (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.

Example : A short memory.

Synonyms : forgetful, unretentive

Good at remembering.

A retentive mind.
Tenacious memory.
long, recollective, retentive, tenacious

Meaning : Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.

Example : A short sale.
Short in cotton.

Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices.

Is long on coffee.
A long position in gold.
long

Meaning : Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration.

Example : The English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short.

(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration.

The English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long.
long

Meaning : Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.

Example : A light pound.
A scant cup of sugar.
Regularly gives short weight.

Synonyms : light, scant

Meaning : Lacking foresight or scope.

Example : A short view of the problem.
Shortsighted policies.
Shortsighted critics derided the plan.
Myopic thinking.

Synonyms : myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful

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Meaning : Tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening.

Example : Shortbread is a short crumbly cookie.
A short flaky pie crust.

Meaning : Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.

Example : Try to cultivate a less brusque manner.
A curt reply.
The salesgirl was very short with him.

Synonyms : brusk, brusque, curt

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