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short
English
- 🔊 tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening“shortbread is a short crumbly cookie”
- 🔊 (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length“short skirts”
- 🔊 primarily temporal sense“a short life”
- 🔊 of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration“the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short”
- 🔊 not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices“a short sale”
- 🔊 lacking foresight or scope“a short view of the problem”
- 🔊 low in stature“he was short and stocky”
- 🔊 (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range“a short memory”
- 🔊 of insufficient quantity to meet a need“an inadequate income”
- 🔊 less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so“a light pound”
- 🔊 the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- 🔊 the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- 🔊 accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- 🔊 at a disadvantage“I was caught short”
- 🔊 so as to interrupt“She took him up short before he could continue”
- 🔊 at some point or distance before a goal is reached“he fell short of our expectations”
- 🔊 clean across“the car's axle snapped short”
- 🔊 without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold“he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash”
- 🔊 in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner“he told me curtly to get on with it”
- 🔊 quickly and without warning“he stopped suddenly”
- 🔊 create a short circuit in
- 🔊 cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Spanish
- 🔊 chucuto short
- 🔊 chulunco short
- 🔊 cuto short
- 🔊 figurita short
- 🔊 karape short
- 🔊 pacho short
- 🔊 petiso short
- 🔊 retacón short, stocky
- 🔊 chascarrillo short, funny anecdote