short

short
    adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn:
           {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"
    3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
    4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
       short of our expectations"
    5: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could
       continue"
    6: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: {short},
       {unawares}]
    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" [syn: {curtly}, {short},
       {shortly}]
    adj 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" [ant: {long}]
    2: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in
       length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot
       short"; "a short toss" [ant: {long}]
    3: low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short
       in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn:
       {short}, {little}] [ant: {tall}]
    4: 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" [syn: {inadequate},
       {poor}, {short}]
    5: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
       memory" [syn: {unretentive}, {forgetful}, {short}] [ant:
       {long}, {recollective}, {retentive}, {tenacious}]
    6: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
       expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
       cotton" [ant: {long}]
    7: of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration;
       "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot',
       putt' are short" [ant: {long}]
    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" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)},
       {short}]
    9: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
       "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the
       plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: {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"
    11: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
        less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
        very short with him" [syn: {brusque}, {brusk}, {curt},
        {short(p)}]
    n 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 [syn: {short circuit},
       {short}]
    3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is
       stationed between second and third base [syn: {shortstop},
       {short}]
    v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn:
         {short-change}, {short}]
    2: create a short circuit in [syn: {short-circuit}, {short}]
    

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.
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            The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
            himself on it.                        --Isa. xxviii.
                                                  20.
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   2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
      protracted; as, short breath.
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            The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            To short absense I could yield.       --Milton.
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   3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
      a short supply of provisions, or of water.
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   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.
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            We shall be short in our provision.   --Shak.
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   5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
      measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
      trith.
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   6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
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            Marinell was sore offended
            That his departure thence should be so short.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
            to be ready by a short day.           --Clarendon.
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   7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
      narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
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            Their own short understandings reach
            No farther than the present.          --Rowe.
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   8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
      equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
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            Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
            them again to war.                    --Landor.
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   9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
      answer to the question.
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   10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
       crisp; as, short pastry.
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   11. (Metal) Brittle.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   {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.
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Short \Short\, adv.
   In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
   to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
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         He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
         such presumptuous language.              --Howell.
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   {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.
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Short \Short\, n.
   1. A summary account.
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            The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
      finer than the bran.
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            The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.
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   3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.
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   4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.
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   5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
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            If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
            longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and
            "naught," 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.
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   {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.
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Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
   To shorten. [Obs.]
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Short \Short\, v. i.
   To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
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Short, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    328
   Housing Units (2000): 143
   Land area (2000):     23.781084 sq. miles (61.592721 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.059329 sq. miles (0.153662 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    23.840413 sq. miles (61.746383 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            67400
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             35.573047 N, 94.506071 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Short, OK
    Short
    

437 Moby Thesaurus words for "short":
      3-D, Bermuda shorts, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Spartan, Technicolor,
      Western, aback, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt,
      abruptly, adulterated, aggressive, all in all, amount, amplify,
      animated cartoon, apart from, aposiopestic, arrested, badly off,
      bankrupt in, bare of, barring, bear, bear account, bearish,
      beastly, before, bereft of, black-and-white film, blemished, bluff,
      blunt, brash, break, break in on, brief, briefly, brisk,
      broken circuit, brusque, burden, butt in, callow, cartoon,
      cavalier, charge, chiller, chunky, churlish, cinema, circuit,
      circuital field, clipped, close, close-tongued, closed circuit,
      closemouthed, color film, cometary, compact, compendious,
      complete circuit, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, core,
      couchant, cramped, creepie, crisp, crouched, crusty, cursory, curt,
      curtail, curtailed, curtal, curtate, cut, cut off, cut short,
      damaged, dead circuit, debased, decreased, decurtate, defective,
      deficient, denuded of, depressed, deprived of, depthless,
      destitute of, devoid of, diminished, diminutive, dinky, direct,
      discourteous, distressed, docked, documentary, documentary film,
      down to bedrock, dumb, dumpy, dwarfish, economical of words,
      educational film, electrify, elfin, elliptic, embarrassed,
      embryonic, empty of, energize, epigrammatic, erroneous, except for,
      excepting, excluding, exclusive of, exiguous, fail, failing,
      fallible, faulty, feature, feeling the pinch, few, film, flashing,
      flat, fleet, flick, flicker, flickering, footling, for want of,
      forlorn of, forthwith, found wanting, galvanic circuit, galvanize,
      generate, gist, gnomic, gruff, half-pint, hard up, harsh, hastily,
      horror picture, horse opera, hot circuit, hot pants, hurriedly,
      hypoplastic, ill off, immature, impaired, impecunious, imperfect,
      impolite, imprecise, impure, in Queer Street, in a nutshell,
      in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of,
      in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in short,
      in short supply, in straitened circumstances, in want of,
      inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconsequential,
      inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indisposed to talk, inexact, infant,
      inferior, insignificant, instantaneous, instantly, insufficient,
      interrupt, irascible, knee-high, knocked flat, lacking, laconic,
      laid low, land-poor, lateral circuit, leaving out, leg, lessened,
      limited, little, live circuit, loop, loop in, low, low-built,
      low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured,
      magnetic circuit, makeshift, meager, meat, mediocre, meteoric,
      microcircuit, midget, miniature, minus, minuscule, missing, mixed,
      momentary, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie,
      moving picture, multiple circuit, multiple series, mum, mute,
      narrow, neap, needing, negligible, newsreel, no great shakes,
      not perfect, nudie, off, offhand, on the edge, one-horse, out of,
      out of pocket, part, partial, patchy, path, penniless,
      peremptorily, petite, petty, photodrama, photoplay, picayune,
      picayunish, picture, picture show, piddling, pinched, pindling,
      pint-sized, pith, pithy, plug in, pocket, pointed, poky, poor,
      poorly off, pornographic film, precluding, preview,
      printed circuit, prone, pruned, puny, purport, quick, quiet, rare,
      recumbent, reduced, reserved, rough, runty, scant, scant of,
      scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, sententious, series multiple,
      setting aside, severe, shallow, sharp, shock, short account,
      short and sweet, short circuit, short interest, short of,
      short of funds, short of money, short seller, short side,
      short-circuit, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, shorten,
      shortened, shorts, shy, shy of, silent, silent film, sketchy,
      skimp, skimpy, skin flick, skin-deep, slender, slight, small,
      smallish, snappish, sneak preview, snippety, snippy, snug,
      spaghetti Western, sparing of words, sparse, speechless, speedy,
      squat, squatty, squeezed, step down, step up, stiffen, stint,
      stooped, stop, straight, straightforward, straitened, strapped,
      stubby, stumpy, stunted, succinct, sudden, suddenly, summary,
      superficial, supine, surly, swift, switch off, switch on,
      synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, talkie, talking picture, temporary,
      terminate, terse, testy, thick, thickset, thriller, thrust, tight,
      tight-lipped, tiny, to the point, tongue-tied, trailer, transient,
      transitory, trifling, trim, trivial, truculent, truncated,
      turn off, turn on, two-by-four, unanticipatedly, unaware,
      unblessed with, uncivil, underdeveloped, underground film,
      undeveloped, unelevated, uneven, unexpectedly, unfinished,
      ungracious, unloquacious, unmoneyed, unperfected, unpossessed of,
      unprosperous, unreached, unsound, untalkative, unthorough, upshot,
      vector field, vest-pocket, void of, wanting, wee, without warning,
      word-bound, wordless