Short

Short may refer to:

  • Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit
  • Short (finance), stock-trading position
  • Short film, a cinema format
  • Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during WW-II
  • Short subject, a cinema format used almost interchangeably with short film
  • Short integer, a computer datatype
  • Short (cricket), an attribute among fielding position modifiers in cricket
  • Short Brothers, a British aerospace company
  • Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder
  • A short person is one of lower human height
  • A partially smoked cigarette that has been saved for later use
  • SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects

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Famous quotes containing the word short:

    A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

    [On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one.
    Jeanne Calment (b. c. 1875)

    If true that notion, which but few contest,
    That in the way of wit short things are best,
    Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
    For ‘tis their glory to be short and sweet.
    —Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)