short

n. short circuit, malfunction of a circuit caused by an unintentional low-resistance connection (Electricity); main point; motion picture of less than 30 minutes (Slang); shot, small drink of liquor (British)

adv. suddenly, abruptly; rudely; unawares, at a disadvantage; prematurely, before the intended target or destination; briefly

adj. not long, little; not tall, small; lacking, deficient; insufficient, inadequate; lacking in length; concise, brief; crumbly or flaky due to high fat content; rude, abrupt

v. cause a short circuit; give less than required or agreed, shortchange (Informal)

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Noun
1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(part-holonym) baseball diamond, diamond, infield
2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
(synonym) short circuit
(hypernym) contact, tangency
(part-holonym) circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
(derivation) short-circuit
3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
(synonym) shortstop
(hypernym) position
(member-holonym) baseball team

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Verb
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
(synonym) short-change
(hypernym) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con
2. create a short-circuit in
(synonym) short-circuit
(hypernym) make, create
(derivation) short circuit

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Adjective
1. 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"
(antonym) long
(similar) abbreviated, shortened, truncated
(attribute) duration, length
2. primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
(antonym) long
(similar) abbreviated, brief
(attribute) length
3. low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
(antonym) tall
(similar) chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
(see-also) small, little
(attribute) stature, height
4. 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"
(synonym) inadequate, poor
(similar) insufficient, deficient
5. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
(antonym) long
(classification) finance
6. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
(antonym) long
(classification) phonetics
7. 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"
(similar) tender
8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
(synonym) light, scant(p)
(similar) insufficient, deficient
9. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
(similar) unstressed, unaccented
(classification) prosody, metrics
10. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
(similar) unretentive, forgetful
11. lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
(synonym) shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
(similar) improvident
12. unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
(synonym) unforbearing
(similar) impatient
13. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
(synonym) choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered
(similar) ill-natured
14. most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"
(synonym) shortest
(similar) direct
15. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
(synonym) brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)
(similar) discourteous

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Adverb
1. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
(synonym) abruptly, suddenly, dead
2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
(classification) finance
3. clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
5. so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
6. at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
(synonym) unawares
7. tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
8. 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"
(synonym) curtly, shortly

nm. shorts, pants that end above the knee; men's underwear

n. shorts, pants that end above the knee