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