What is short?

More definitions of "short":

• (adj): Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration.

• (noun): The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.

• (adj): Most direct.
  Synonyms: shortest

• (adj): Quickly aroused to anger.
  Synonyms: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered

• (adj): Not sufficient to meet a need.
  Example: "Money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
  Synonyms: inadequate, poor

• (adj): Containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes.
  Example: "Shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"

• (verb): Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.
  Synonyms: short-change

• (adv): Clean across.
  Example: "The car's axle snapped short"

• (adj): (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.
  Example: "A short memory"

• (adj): Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in 'pat', 'pet', 'pit', 'pot', putt').

• (adj): Low in stature; not tall.
  Example: "His was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

• (adv): Quickly and without warning.
  Synonyms: abruptly, suddenly, dead

• (noun): Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.
  Synonyms: short circuit

• (noun): The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base.
  Synonyms: shortstop

• (adj): Lacking foresight or scope.
  Example: "A short view of the problem"
  Synonyms: shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic

• (adv): Tightly.
  Example: "She caught him up short on his lapel"

• (verb): Create a short-circuit in.
  Synonyms: short-circuit

• (adj): Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
  Example: "Regularly gives short weight"
  Synonyms: light, scant

• (adv): So as to interrupt.
  Example: "She took him up short before he could continue"

• (adj): Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
  Example: "The salesgirl was very short with him"
  Synonyms: brusque, brusk, curt

• (adv): At some point or distance before a goal is reached.
  Example: "He fell short of our expectations"

• (adj): Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.
  Example: "A short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"

• (adv): At a disadvantage.
  Example: "I was caught short"
  Synonyms: unawares

• (adj): Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.
  Example: "A short sale"; "short in cotton"

• (adv): In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.
  Example: "He talked short with everyone"
  Synonyms: curtly, shortly

• (adv): Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.
  Example: "He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

• (adj): Unwilling to endure.
  Example: "She was short with the slower students"
  Synonyms: unforbearing

Famous quotes containing the word short:

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“The touchstone for family life is still the legendary “and so they were married and lived happily ever after.” It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)