short

Plural: shorts

Noun

• the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
• accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
• A short circuit.
• A short film.
• A short film.
• A short-form vertical video.
• A short film.
• A short-form vertical video.
• A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.
• A short version of a garment in a particular size.
• A shortstop.
• A short seller.
• A short sale or short position.
• A summary account.
• A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• An automobile; especially in crack shorts (“to break into automobiles”).

Verb

Verb Forms: shorter, shortest, shorted, shorting, shorts

• To cause a short circuit in an electrical system.
• cheat someone by not returning him enough money
• create a short circuit in
• To cause a short circuit in (something).
• To short circuit.
• To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
• To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
• To shorten.

Adjective

• Having little length, duration, or height.
• 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"
• (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
  • "short skirts"
  • "short hair"
  • "the board was a foot short"
  • "a short toss"
• low in stature; not tall
  • "he was short and stocky"
  • "short in stature"
  • "a short smokestack"
• (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
  • "a short memory"
• not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
  • "a short sale"
  • "short in cotton"
• of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
  • "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

Adjective Satellite

• not sufficient to meet a need
  • "money is short"
  • "on short rations"
  • "food is in short supply"
  • "short on experience"
• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
  • "regularly gives short weight"
• lacking foresight or scope
  • "a short view of the problem"
  • "shortsighted policies"
  • "shortsighted critics derided the plan"
• tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
  • "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"
  • "a short flaky pie crust"
• marked by rude or peremptory shortness
  • "the salesgirl was very short with him"

Adverb

• quickly and without warning
• without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
  • "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
• clean across
  • "the car's axle snapped short"
• at some point or distance before a goal is reached
  • "he fell short of our expectations"
• so as to interrupt
  • "She took him up short before he could continue"
• at a disadvantage
  • "I was caught short"
• in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
  • "he talked short with everyone"
  • "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

Adj

• Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• Of comparatively small height.
• Having little duration.
• Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
• that is relatively close to the batsman.
• bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
• that falls short of the green or the hole.
• Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
• Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
• Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; curt.
• Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
• Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• Undiluted; neat.
• Not distant in time; near at hand.
• Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
• Doubtful of, skeptical of.
• Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.

Adv

• Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• Unawares.
• Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
• With a negative ownership position.

Prep

• Deficient in.
• Having a negative position in.

Examples

• "Phone" is short for "telephone" and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".
• 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
• a short supply of provisions
• an account which is short of the truth
• Do you have that size in a short?
• He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
• He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
• He gave a short answer to the question.
• He managed to SHORT-circuit his opponent’s strategy with a clever blocking move in Scrabble.
• He's short common sense.
• His speech fell short of what was expected.
• His time to make a move was getting SHORT, adding pressure to the Words With Friends game.
• I don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend.
• I'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.
• I'm short in General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
• Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
• Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.
• short position
• The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
• The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
• The circuit breaker keeps tripping because there's a short in the wiring.
• The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
• The recent developments at work caught them short.
• They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
• This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
• to be short of money
• We are short a few men on the second shift.
• We went short most finance companies in July.
• You should short the poles of the capacitor to discharge it before you work on it.

Synonyms

abruptly, brusk, brusque, curt, curtly, dead, forgetful, inadequate, light, little, myopic, poor, scant, short circuit, short-change, short-circuit, shortly, shortsighted, shortstop, suddenly, unawares, unforesightful, unretentive, a short form of, an abbreviation of, brief, concise, lacking, low, narrow, petite, pint-sized, scrimp, shallow, short, short on, shortsome, slim, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, titchy, vertically challenged

Antonyms

long, retentive, tall, broad, deep, high, wide

Related Words

heightism, pipsqueak, short man syndrome, shortness, shorts, shorty

Anagrams of short