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short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inadequate, jejune, poor |
| Derivation | shortness |
money is short.
on short rations.
food is in short supply.
short on experience.
short::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | short-change |
| Type of | mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize, defraud, con, bunco, goldbrick, hornswoggle, diddle |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | little |
| Derivation | shortness |
he was short and stocky.
short in stature.
a short smokestack.
short::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | short circuit |
| Type of | contact, tangency |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | short-circuit |
| Type of | create, make |
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | forgetful, unretentive |
| Derivation | shortness |
a short memory.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
a short view of the problem.
shortsighted policies.
shortsighted critics derided the plan.
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|
a short sale.
short in cotton.
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short.
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | shortness |
short skirts.
short hair.
the board was a foot short.
a short toss.
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | shortness |
a short life.
a short flight.
a short holiday.
a short story.
only a few short months.
short::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|
shortbread is a short crumbly cookie.
a short flaky pie crust.
short::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel, parcel of land |
short::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash.
Examples of short
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Throughout the year the only mention of NIU football has been short AP articles.
From the dailyherald.com
Participants may share their poems, excerpts of short stores, or original music.
From the stltoday.com
Are there products that can be applied easily and that will dry in a short time?
From the thenewstribune.com
In three short years, its radio audience expanded to nearly 3 million listeners.
From the bostonherald.com
Included are full-time, part-time, permanent, short-term, and seasonal openings.
From the bloomberg.com
Israel knows it has a short shelf-life before it is overwhelmed by demographics.
From the washingtontimes.com
This year's outgoing class brought the Lions to prominence in three short years.
From the stltoday.com
A short time later, St. John's called, inquiring about Mr. Lavin's availability.
From the online.wsj.com
Neuroscience, in short, has no way of accommodating everyday first-person being.
From the online.wsj.com
- The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- 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"
- Abruptly: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- Short-change: cheat someone by not returning him enough money
- Short-circuit: create a short circuit in
- Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
- Short is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern regions of the Moon, on the near side. It lies just to the south of the larger, prominent crater Moretus, and northeast of Newton.
- Short film is a technical description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short subject. Either term is often abbreviated to short (as a noun, e.g., "a short"). ...
- In finance, short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling assets, usually securities, that have been borrowed from a third party (usually a broker) with the intention of buying identical assets back at a later date to return to the lender. ...
