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English Dictionary: short	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
short adv quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead] 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" Synonym(s): short, unawares 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(s): curtly, short, shortly adj 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(s): long (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" Antonym(s): long low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" Synonym(s): short, little Antonym(s): tall 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(s): inadequate, poor, short (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" Synonym(s): unretentive, forgetful, short Antonym(s): long, recollective, retentive, tenacious not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" Antonym(s): long of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" Antonym(s): long 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(s): light, scant(p), short lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" Synonym(s): short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic 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; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" Synonym(s): brusque, brusk, curt, short(p) n 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 Synonym(s): short circuit, short the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base Synonym(s): shortstop, short v cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change, short] create a short circuit in Synonym(s): short-circuit, short
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Short \Short\, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. --Isa. xxviii. 20. 2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. The life so short, the craft so long to learn. --Chaucer. To short absense I could yield. --Milton. 3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. 4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. We shall be short in our provision. --Shak. 5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. 6. Not distant in time; near at hand. Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. --Spenser. He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. --Clarendon. 7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. --Rowe. 8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. --Landor. 9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. 10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. 11. (Metal) Brittle. Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called [?]ot-short; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account of the presence of phosphorus. 12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under {Short}, n., and To sell short, under {Short}, adv. Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer. 13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to {long}, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See {Quantity}, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30. Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short-winged, short-wooled, etc. {At short notice}, in a brief time; promptly. {Short rib} (Anat.), one of the false ribs. {Short suit} (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three. --R. A. Proctor. {To come short}, {To cut short}, {To fall short}, etc. See under {Come}, {Cut}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Short \Short\, adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. --Howell. {To sell short} (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.] To shorten. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Short \Short\, n. 1. A summary account. The short and the long is, our play is preferred. --Shak. 2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell. 3. pl. Short, inferior hemp. 4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens. 5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in [bd]bit[b8] and [bd]beat,[b8] [bd]not[b8] and [bd]naught,[b8] we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H. Sweet. {In short}, in few words; in brief; briefly. {The long and the short}, the whole; a brief summing up. {The shorts} (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Short \Short\, v. i. To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]