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SHORT

Definition:

1. [adverb] quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
   Synonyms: abruptly, suddenly, dead
   
   
2. [adverb] without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
   
   
3. [adverb] clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
   
   
4. [adverb] at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
   
   
5. [adverb] so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
   
   
6. [adverb] at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
   Synonyms: unawares
   
   
7. [adverb] tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
   
   
8. [adverb] 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"
   Synonyms: curtly, ly
   
   
9. [noun] the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
   
   
10. [noun] accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
    Synonyms: circuit
    
    
11. [noun] the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
    Synonyms: stop
    
    
12. [verb] cheat someone by not returning him enough money
    Synonyms: -change
    
    
13. [verb] create a short-circuit in
    Synonyms: -circuit
    
    
14. [adjective] 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"
    
    
15. [adjective] primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
    
    
16. [adjective] low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
    
    
17. [adjective] 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
    
    
18. [adjective] not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
    
    
19. [adjective] of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
    
    
20. [adjective] 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"
    
    
21. [adjective] less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
    Synonyms: light, scant
    
    
22. [adjective] used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
    
    
23. [adjective] (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
    
    
24. [adjective] lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
    Synonyms: sighted, unforesightful, myopic
    
    
25. [adjective] unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
    Synonyms: unforbearing
    
    
26. [adjective] quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
    Synonyms: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, -tempered
    
    
27. [adjective] most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"
    Synonyms: est
    
    
28. [adjective] marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
    Synonyms: brusque, brusk, curt
    
    

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