Noun | 1. | short - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
2. | short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference Synonyms: short circuit | |
3. | short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base Synonyms: shortstop | |
Verb | 1. | short - cheat someone by not returning him enough money Synonyms: short-change |
2. | short - create a short-circuit in Synonyms: short-circuit | |
Adj. | 1. | short - 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" Antonyms: long - 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" |
2. | short - primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" Antonyms: long - 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" | |
3. | short - low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack" Antonyms: tall - great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" | |
4. | short - 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" Synonyms: inadequate, poor | |
5. | short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" Antonyms: long - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" | |
6. | short - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') Antonyms: long - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') | |
7. | short - containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" | |
8. | short - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" | |
9. | short - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration | |
10. | short - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" | |
11. | short - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" | |
12. | short - unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students" Synonyms: unforbearing | |
13. | short - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" | |
14. | short - most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town" Synonyms: shortest | |
15. | short - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" | |
Adv. | 1. | short - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" |
2. | short - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" | |
3. | short - clean across; "the car's axle snapped short" | |
4. | short - at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations" | |
5. | short - so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue" | |
6. | short - at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" Synonyms: unawares | |
7. | short - tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel" | |
8. | short - 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" |