Hyphenation of Short

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Short

Definitions of Short:

1.
The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
2.
Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
3.
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
4.
Cheat someone by not returning him enough money
5.
Create a short circuit in
6.
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
7.
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
Short skirts Short hair The board was a foot short A short toss
8.
Low in stature
Not tall He was short and stocky Short in stature A short smokestack A little man
9.
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
10.
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
A short memory
11.
Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
A short sale Short in cotton
12.
Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
The English vowel sounds in `pat'
13.
`pet'
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`pit'
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`pot'
16.
Putt' are short
17.
Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
A light pound A scant cup of sugar Regularly gives short weight
18.
Lacking foresight or scope
A short view of the problem Shortsighted policies Shortsighted critics derided the plan Myopic thinking
19.
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
20.
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Try to cultivate a less brusque manner A curt reply The salesgirl was very short with him
21.
Quickly and without warning
He stopped suddenly
22.
Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
23.
Clean across
The car's axle snapped short
24.
At some point or distance before a goal is reached
He fell short of our expectations
25.
So as to interrupt
She took him up short before he could continue
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At a disadvantage
I was caught short
27.
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 of Short:

adj short, abbreviated, shortened, truncated, brief, little, clipped, fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, short-dated, short-range, short-run, short-term, telescoped, shortened, short and sweet
adj short, abbreviated, brief, close, curtal, sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened, shortish, short-range, short-snouted, telescoped, shortened, snub, stubby, truncate, truncated
adj short, chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, squab, squabby, small, little, low
adj inadequate, poor, insufficient, deficient
adj short
adj short
adj tender
adj light, scant, insufficient, deficient
adj unstressed, unaccented
adj unretentive, forgetful
adj shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic, improvident
adj unforbearing, impatient
adj choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered, ill-natured
adj shortest, direct
adj brusque, brusk, curt, discourteous
noun tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
nounshort circuit, contact, tangency
noun shortstop, position
verb short-change, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con
verb short-circuit, make, create
adv abruptly, suddenly, dead
adv unawares
adv curtly, shortly

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