short /ʃɔrt/
1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
synset: short
2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
synset: short_circuit, short
3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
synset: short-change, short
synset: short-circuit, short
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"
synset: short
2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
synset: short
3. low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
4. of insufficient quantity to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"; "the jejune diets of the very poor"
synset: inadequate, poor, short, jejune
5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
synset: unretentive, forgetful, short
antonym: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious
6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
synset: short
7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
synset: short
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"
9. lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
synset: short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
10. 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"
synset: short
11. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
synset: brusque, brusk, curt, short
1. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
synset: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead
2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
synset: short
3. clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
synset: short
4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
synset: short
5. so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
synset: short
6. at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
7. 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"
synset: curtly, short, shortly
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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