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:

    “Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”
    —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    “There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)