catflap.org Online Dictionary Query

  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]