What is short?

More definitions of "short":

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

• (adj): Most direct.
  Synonyms: shortest

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

• (adj): Primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length.
  Example: "Short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word short:

“You’ve got many refinements. I don’t think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

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

“The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth in the fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)