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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Short \Short\, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE.
     short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
     skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
     t. Cf. Shirt.]
     1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
        short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
              himself on it.                        --Isa. xxviii.
                                                    20.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
        protracted; as, short breath.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
                                                    --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              To short absense I could yield.       --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
        a short supply of provisions, or of water.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
        furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
        ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
        money.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              We shall be short in our provision.   --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
        measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
        trith.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Marinell was sore offended
              That his departure thence should be so short.
                                                    --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
              to be ready by a short day.           --Clarendon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
        narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Their own short understandings reach
              No farther than the present.          --Rowe.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
        equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
              them again to war.                    --Landor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
        answer to the question.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
         crisp; as, short pastry.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     11. (Metal) Brittle.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
           as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
           of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
           cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
           of the presence of phosphorus.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
         not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
         See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short,
         under Short, adv.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
           made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
           after being presented to the payer.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
         utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or
         to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
         letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
         same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
         i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
         short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide
         to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
           self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
           short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
           short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
           short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
  
     Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
  
     Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
        less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
  
     To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See
        under Come, Cut, etc.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Short \Short\, n.
     1. A summary account.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
                                                    --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
        finer than the bran.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
              longs in English, as in ``bit'' and ``beat,''
              ``not'' and ``naught,'' we find that the short
              vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides
              being generally diphthongic as well. Hence,
              originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet
              kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H.
                                                    Sweet.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.
  
     The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.
  
     The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with
        stocks which they contracted to deliver.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Short \Short\, adv.
     In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
     to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
           such presumptuous language.              --Howell.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future
        delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes
        to buy at a lower rate.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
     To shorten. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Short \Short\, v. i.
     To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Short \Short\, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE.
     short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
     skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
     t. Cf. Shirt.]
     1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
        short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
  
              The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
              himself on it.                        --Isa. xxviii.
                                                    20.
  
     2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
        protracted; as, short breath.
  
              The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
                                                    --Chaucer.
  
              To short absense I could yield.       --Milton.
  
     3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
        a short supply of provisions, or of water.
  
     4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
        furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
        ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
        money.
  
              We shall be short in our provision.   --Shak.
  
     5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
        measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
        trith.
  
     6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
  
              Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence
              should be so short.                   --Spenser.
  
              He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
              to be ready by a short day.           --Clarendon.
  
     7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
        narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
  
              Their own short understandings reach No farther than
              the present.                          --Rowe.
  
     8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
        equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
  
              Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
              them again to war.                    --Landor.
  
     9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
        answer to the question.
  
     10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
         crisp; as, short pastry.
  
     11. (Metal) Brittle.
  
     Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
           as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
           of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
           cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
           of the presence of phosphorus.
  
     12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
         not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
         See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short,
         under Short, adv.
  
     Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
           made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
           after being presented to the payer.
  
     13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
         utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or
         to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
         letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
         same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
         i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
         short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide
         to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
  
     Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
           self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
           short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
           short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
           short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
  
     At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
  
     Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
  
     Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
        less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
  
     To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See
        under Come, Cut, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Short \Short\, adv.
     In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
     to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
  
           He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
           such presumptuous language.              --Howell.
  
     To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future
        delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes
        to buy at a lower rate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Short \Short\, n.
     1. A summary account.
  
              The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
        finer than the bran.
  
              The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.
  
     3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.
  
     4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.
  
     5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  
              If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
              longs in English, as in ``bit'' and ``beat,''
              ``not'' and ``naught,'' we find that the short
              vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides
              being generally diphthongic as well. Hence,
              originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet
              kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H.
                                                    Sweet.
  
     In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.
  
     The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.
  
     The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with
        stocks which they contracted to deliver.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
     To shorten. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Short \Short\, v. i.
     To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  short
       adj 1: 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" [ant: long]
       2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
          length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
          foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: long]
       3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
          in stature"; "a short smokestack" [ant: tall]
       4: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
          poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
          is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: inadequate,
           poor]
       5: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
          expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
          cotton" [ant: long]
       6: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short
          duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat',
          `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') [ant: long]
       7: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender
          and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a
          short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
       8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
          deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
          "regularly gives short weight" [syn: light, scant(p)]
       9: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief
          duration
       10: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
           memory"
       11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
           "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
           the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: shortsighted, unforesightful,
            myopic]
       12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
           students" [syn: unforbearing]
       13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric,
            irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered,
            short-tempered]
       14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
           town" [syn: shortest]
       15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
           less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
           very short with him" [syn: brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)]
       n 1: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is
            stationed
       2: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit
          that have a potential difference [syn: short circuit]
       3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
          is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base [syn: shortstop]
       adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly,
               suddenly, dead]
       2: without possessing something at the time it is contractually
          sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before
          the crash"
       3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
       4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
          short of our expectations"
       5: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could
          continue"
       6: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: unawares]
       7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
       8: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me
          curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with
          everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn:
          curtly, shortly]
       v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change]
       2: create a short-circuit in [syn: short-circuit]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 κοντός, αντικείμενο με μικρό μήκος
     2 σύντομος
     3 ελλειμματικός
     4 (ετ: γραμματική) '''short for''': συντομευμένη μορφή μιας λέξης
     Αγγλικά adv.
     1 απότομα, γρήγορα
     2 σύντομα
     3 χωρίς να έχει κάποιος γνώση μιας εξέλιξης
     4 χωρίς να επιτευχθεί κάποιος στόχος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     a.
     1 Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either
  horizontally or vertically.
     2 (lb en of a person) Of comparatively small height.
     3 Having little duration.
     adv.
     1 abruptly, curtly, briefly.
     2 unawares.
     3 Without achieving a goal or requirement.
     4 (lb en cricket of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball)
  Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal;
  opposite of full.
     5 (lb en finance) With a negative ownership position.
     n.
     1 A short circuit.
     2 A short film.
     prep.
     1 Deficient in.
     2 (lb en finance) Having a negative position in.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To cause a short circuit#Noun in (something).
     2 (lb en intransitive of an electrical circuit) To short
  circuit#Verb.
     3 (lb en transitive) To shortchange.
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed
  or labeled amount.
     5 (lb en transitive business) To sell something, especially security,
  that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in
  hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
     6 (lb en obsolete) To shorten.
     French n.
     shorts, short trousers (qualifier: UK)
     Middle English a.
     (alternative form of enm schort)
     Spanish n.
     shorts

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Short
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     a.
     1 Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either
  horizontally or vertically.
     2 (lb en of a person) Of comparatively small height.
     3 Having little duration.
     adv.
     1 abruptly, curtly, briefly.
     2 unawares.
     3 Without achieving a goal or requirement.
     4 (lb en cricket of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball)
  Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal;
  opposite of full.
     5 (lb en finance) With a negative ownership position.
     n.
     1 A short circuit.
     2 A short film.
     prep.
     1 Deficient in.
     2 (lb en finance) Having a negative position in.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To cause a short circuit#Noun in (something).
     2 (lb en intransitive of an electrical circuit) To short
  circuit#Verb.
     3 (lb en transitive) To shortchange.
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed
  or labeled amount.
     5 (lb en transitive business) To sell something, especially security,
  that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in
  hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
     6 (lb en obsolete) To shorten.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  Short
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     a.
     1 Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either
  horizontally or vertically.
     2 (lb en of a person) Of comparatively small height.
     3 Having little duration.
     adv.
     1 abruptly, curtly, briefly.
     2 unawares.
     3 Without achieving a goal or requirement.
     4 (lb en cricket of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball)
  Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal;
  opposite of full.
     5 (lb en finance) With a negative ownership position.
     n.
     1 A short circuit.
     2 A short film.
     prep.
     1 Deficient in.
     2 (lb en finance) Having a negative position in.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To cause a short circuit#Noun in (something).
     2 (lb en intransitive of an electrical circuit) To short
  circuit#Verb.
     3 (lb en transitive) To shortchange.
     4 (lb en transitive informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed
  or labeled amount.
     5 (lb en transitive business) To sell something, especially security,
  that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in
  hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
     6 (lb en obsolete) To shorten.
     French n.
     shorts, short trousers (qualifier: UK)
     Middle English a.
     (alternative form of enm schort)
     Spanish n.
     shorts

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  Short
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     French n.
     shorts, short trousers (qualifier: UK)
     Italian n.
     (l en short) (short film etc.)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt Brazil) shorts (gloss: pants that do not go lower than the
  knees)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  Short
     n.
     (surname: en).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     Englanti a.
     1 lyhyt
     2 töykeä
     3 (''keittiö'') murea, muro-
     4 (''juoma'') väkevä
     5 riittämätön, vajaa
     Englanti vb.
     myydä lyhyeksi

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  short
     Engelska a.
     1 kort
     2 koncis, kortfattad
     3 smal, ej omfattande
     4 knapp, otillräcklig; som lida brist på något, som saknar något,
  vanligen innebärande "för kort" eller "för liten"
     5 spröd, skör
     Engelska adv.
     abrupt
     Engelska n.
     1 kortslutning
     2 kortfilm
     3 morsesignal
     4 (tagg programmering språk=en) ''förkortning för'' short integer

From German - English Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:deu-eng ]


  Short /ʃˈɔɾt/ 
  short trousers  [Br.]  [pair of] , short pants  [Am.] , shorts 
     Synonyms: kurze Hose, Shorts
  
   see: knappe Damenshort, Hotpants, abgeschnittene Jeansshort für Damen

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  short /ʃˈɔːt/
  kort

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Short /ʃˈɔːt/
  قصير

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  short //ʃoɹt// //ʃoːt// //ʃɔːt// //ʃɔːɹt// //ˈʃoːrt// //ˈʃoːɻt// //ˈʃɒːɹt// /[ʃɑɹt]/ 
  1. съкрате́но
  constituting an abbreviation or shortened form
  2. къс, кра́тък
  having a small distance between ends or edges
  3. кра́тък, кратък
  having little duration
  4. ни́сък
  of a person, of comparatively small height

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  short //ʃoɹt// //ʃoːt// //ʃɔːt// //ʃɔːɹt// //ˈʃoːrt// //ˈʃoːɻt// //ˈʃɒːɹt// /[ʃɑɹt]/ 
  внезапно, рязко
  abruptly, briefly

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  short //ʃoɹt// //ʃoːt// //ʃɔːt// //ʃɔːɹt// //ˈʃoːrt// //ˈʃoːɻt// //ˈʃɒːɹt// /[ʃɑɹt]/ 
  дефицитен
  deficient in