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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHORT, a. [L. curtus.]
1. Not long; not having great length or extension; as a short distance; a short ferry; a short flight; a short piece of timber.
The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it. Isaiah 28.
2. Not extended in time; not of long duration.
The triumphing of the wicked is short. Job 20.
3. Not of usual or sufficient length, reach or extent.
Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight. Pope.
4. Not of long duration; repeated at small intervals of time; as short breath.
5. Not of adequate extent or quantity; not reaching the point demanded, desired or expected; as a quantity short of our expectations.
Not therefore am I short
Of knowing what I ought. Milton.
6. Deficient; defective; imperfect. This account is short of the truth.
7. Not adequate; insufficient; scanty; as, provisions are short; a short allowance of water for the voyage.
8. Not sufficiently supplied; scantily furnished.
the English were inferior in number, and grew short in their provisions.
Hayward.
9. Not far distant in time; future.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him, to be ready by a short day. Clarendon.
10. Not fetching a compass; as in the phrase, to turn short.
11. Not going to the point intended; as, to stop short.
12. Defective in quantity; as sheep short of their wool.
13. Narrow; limited; not extended; not large or comprehensive.
Their own short understandings reach
No farther than the present. Rowe.
14. Brittle; friable; breaking all at once without splinters or shatters; as marl so short that it cannot be wrought into a ball.
15. Not bending.
The lance broke short. Dryden.
16. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; severe. I asked him a question, to which he gave a short answer.
To be short, to be scantily supplied; as, to be short of bread or water.
To come short, to fail; not to do what is demanded or expected, or what is necessary for the purpose; applied to persons. We all come short of perfect obedience to God's will.
2. Not to reach or obtain.
3. To fail; to be insufficient. Provisions come short.
To cut short, to abridge; to contract; to make to small or defective; also, ot destroy or consume.
To fall short, to fail; to be inadequate or scanty; as, provisions fall short; money falls short.
2. To fail; not to do or accomplish; as, to fall short on duty.
3. To be less. The measure falls short of the estimate.
To stop short, to stop at once; also, to stop without reaching the point intended.
To turn short, to turn on the spot occupied; to turn without making a compass.
For turning short he struck with all his might. Dryden.
To be taken short, to be seized with urgent necessity.
In short, a few words; briefly; to sum up or close in a few words.
SHORT, n. A summary account; as the short of the matter.
The short and long in our play is preferred. Shak.
SHORT, adv. Not long; as short-enduring joy; a short-breathed man.
In connection with verbs, short is a modifying word, or used adverbially; as, to come short, etc.
SHORT, v.t.
1. To shorten.
2. v.i. To fail; to decrease. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [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, short]
5: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" [syn: unretentive, forgetful, short] [ant: long, recollective, retentive, tenacious]
6: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" [ant: long]
7: of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" [ant: long]
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, short]
9: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic]
10: tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
11: 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] 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, short]
3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base [syn: shortstop, short] v
1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change, short]
2: create a short circuit in [syn: short-circuit, short] adv
1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, 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: short, unawares]
7: 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, short, shortly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceort; akin to Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr lack Date: before 12th century 1. a. having little length b. not tall or high ; low 2. a. not extended in time ; brief <a short vacation> b. not retentive <a short memory> c. expeditious, quick <made short work of the problem> d. seeming to pass quickly <made great progress in just a few short years> 3. a. of a speech sound having a relatively short duration b. being the member of a pair of similarly spelled vowel or vowel-containing sounds that is descended from a vowel that was short in duration but is no longer so and that does not necessarily have duration as its chief distinguishing feature <short i in sin> c. of a syllable in prosody (1) of relatively brief duration (2) unstressed 4. limited in distance <a short trip> 5. a. not coming up to a measure or requirement ; insufficient <in short supply> b. not reaching far enough <the throw to first was short> c. enduring privation d. insufficiently supplied <short of cash> <short on brains> 6. a. abrupt, curt <I'm sorry I was short with you> b. quickly provoked <a short temper> 7. choppy 2 8. payable at an early date <a short loan> 9. a. containing or cooked with shortening; also flaky <short pastry> b. of metal brittle under certain conditions 10. a. not lengthy or drawn out <a short speech> b. made briefer ; abbreviated 11. a. not having goods or property that one has sold in anticipation of a fall in prices b. consisting of, relating to, or engaging in the sale of securities or commodities that the seller does not possess or has not contracted for at the time of the sale <short sale> <a short seller> 12. near the end of a tour of duty • shortish adjective • shortness noun II. adverb Date: 14th century 1. in a curt manner 2. for or during a brief time <short-lasting> 3. at a disadvantage ; unawares <caught short> 4. in an abrupt manner ; suddenly <the car stopped short> 5. at some point or degree before a goal or limit aimed at or under consideration <the bombs fell short> <quit a month short of graduation> 6. clean across <the axle was snapped short> 7. by or as if by a short sale III. noun Date: circa 1586 1. the sum and substance ; upshot 2. a. a short syllable b. a short sound or signal 3. plural a. a by-product of wheat milling that includes the germ, fine bran, and some flour b. refuse, clippings, or trimmings discarded in various manufacturing processes 4. a. knee-length or less than knee-length trousers — usually used in plural b. plural short drawers c. a size in clothing for short men 5. a. one who operates on the short side of the market b. plural short-term bonds 6. plural deficiencies 7. short circuit 8. shortstop 9. a. short subject b. a brief story or article (as in a newspaper) IV. transitive verb Date: 1904 1. short-circuit 2. shortchange, cheat 3. to sell (a security) short in expectation of a fall in prices

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b not long in duration; brief (a short time ago; had a short life). c seeming less than the stated amount (a few short years of happiness). 2 of small height; not tall (a short square tower; was shorter than average). 3 a (usu. foll. by of, on) having a partial or total lack; deficient; scanty (short of spoons; is rather short on sense). b not far-reaching; acting or being near at hand (within short range). 4 a concise; brief (kept his speech short). b curt; uncivil (was short with her). 5 (of the memory) unable to remember distant events. 6 Phonet. & Prosody of a vowel or syllable: a having the lesser of the two recognized durations. b unstressed. c (of an English vowel) having a sound other than that called long (cf. LONG(1) adj. 8). 7 a (of pastry) crumbling; not holding together. b (of clay) having poor plasticity. 8 esp. Stock Exch. a (of stocks, a stockbroker, crops, etc.) sold or selling when the amount is not in hand, with reliance on getting the deficit in time for delivery. b (of a bill of exchange) maturing at an early date. 9 Cricket a (of a ball) pitching relatively near the bowler. b (of a fielder or his position) relatively near the batsman. 10 (of a drink of spirits) undiluted. --adv. 1 before the natural or expected time or place; abruptly (pulled up short; cut short the celebrations). 2 rudely; uncivilly (spoke to him short). --n. 1 colloq. a short drink, esp. spirits. 2 a short circuit. 3 a short film. 4 Stock Exch. a a person who sells short. b (in pl.) short-dated stocks. 5 Phonet. a a short syllable or vowel. b a mark indicating that a vowel is short. 6 (in pl.) a mixture of bran and coarse flour. --v.tr. & intr. short-circuit. Phrases and idioms: be caught (or taken) short 1 be put at a disadvantage. 2 colloq. urgently need to urinate or defecate. bring up (or pull up) short check or pause abruptly. come short be inadequate or disappointing. come short of fail to reach or amount to. for short as a short name (Tom for short). get (or have) by the short hairs colloq. be in complete control of (a person). go short (often foll. by of) not have enough. in short to use few words; briefly. in short order US immediately. in the short run over a short period of time. in short supply scarce. in the short term = in the short run. make short work of accomplish, dispose of, destroy, consume, etc. quickly. short and sweet esp. iron. brief and pleasant. short-arm (of a blow etc.) delivered with the arm not fully extended. short back and sides a haircut in which the hair is cut short at the back and the sides. short change insufficient money given as change. short-change v.tr. rob or cheat by giving short change. short circuit an electric circuit through small resistance, esp. instead of the resistance of a normal circuit. short-circuit 1 cause a short circuit or a short circuit in. 2 shorten or avoid (a journey, work, etc.) by taking a more direct route etc. short commons insufficient food. short cut 1 a route shortening the distance travelled. 2 a quick way of accomplishing something. short date an early date for the maturing of a bill etc. short-dated due for early payment or redemption. short-day (of a plant) needing the period of light each day to fall below some limit to cause flowering. short division Math. division in which the quotient is written directly without being worked out in writing. short drink a strong alcoholic drink served in small measures. short-eared owl an owl, Asio flammeus, frequenting open country and hunting at dawn or dusk. short for an abbreviation for ('Bob' is short for 'Robert'). short fuse a quick temper. short game Golf approaching and putting. short-handed undermanned or understaffed. short haul 1 the transport of goods over a short distance. 2 a short-term effort. short head Racing a distance less than the length of a horse's head. short-head v.tr. beat by a short head. short hundredweight see HUNDREDWEIGHT. short list Brit. a list of selected candidates from which a final choice is made. short-list v.tr. Brit. put on a short list. short-lived ephemeral; not long-lasting. short mark = BREVE 2. short measure less than the professed amount. short metre Prosody a hymn stanza of four lines with 6, 6, 8, and 6 syllables. short notice an insufficient length of warning time. short odds nearly equal stakes or chances in betting. short of 1 see sense 3a of adj. 2 less than (nothing short of a miracle). 3 distant from (two miles short of home). 4 without going so far as; except (did everything short of destroying it). short of breath panting, short-winded. short on colloq. see sense 3a of adj. short order US an order in a restaurant for quickly cooked food. short-pitched Cricket (of a ball) pitching relatively near the bowler. short-range 1 having a short range. 2 relating to a fairly immediate future time (short-range possibilities). short rib = floating rib. short score Mus. a score not giving all parts. short shrift curt or dismissive treatment. short sight the inability to focus except on comparatively near objects. short-sleeved with sleeves not reaching below the elbow. short-staffed having insufficient staff. short story a story with a fully developed theme but shorter than a novel. short suit a suit of less than four cards. short temper self-control soon or easily lost. short-term occurring in or relating to a short period of time. short time the condition of working fewer than the regular hours per day or days per week. short title an abbreviated form of a title of a book etc. short ton see TON. short view a consideration of the present only, not the future. short waist 1 a high or shallow waist of a dress. 2 a short upper body. short wave a radio wave of frequency greater than 3 MHz. short weight weight less than it is alleged to be. short whist whist with ten or five points to a game. short wind quickly exhausted breathing-power. short-winded 1 having short wind. 2 incapable of sustained effort. Derivatives: shortish adj. shortness n. Etymology: OE sceort f. Gmc: cf. SHIRT, SKIRT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

I. ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB USES (shorter, shortest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Please look at category 23 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword. 1. If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long. The announcement was made a short time ago... How could you do it in such a short period of time?... Kemp gave a short laugh... We had a short meeting. ? long ADJ 2. If you talk about a short hour, day, or year, you mean that it seems to have passed very quickly or will seem to pass very quickly. For a few short weeks there was peace... ? long ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. A short speech, letter, or book does not have many words or pages in it. They were performing a short extract from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona... ? long ADJ: usu ADJ n 4. Someone who is short is not as tall as most people are. I'm tall and thin and he's short and fat. ...a short, elderly woman with grey hair... ? tall ADJ 5. Something that is short measures only a small amount from one end to the other. The city centre and shops are only a short distance away... His black hair was very short. ? long ADJ 6. If you are short of something or if it is short, you do not have enough of it. If you are running short of something or if it is running short, you do not have much of it left. Her father's illness left the family short of money... Supplies of everything are unreliable, food is short... ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ of n 7. If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it. He stopped a hundred yards short of the building... ADJ: v-link ADJ of n 8. Short of a particular thing means except for that thing or without actually doing that thing. Short of climbing railings four metres high, there was no way into the garden from this road... PREP-PHRASE: PREP n/-ing 9. If something is cut short or stops short, it is stopped before people expect it to or before it has finished. His glittering career was cut short by a heart attack... ADV: ADV after v 10. If a name or abbreviation is short for another name, it is the short version of that name. Her friend Kes (short for Kesewa) was in tears... 'O.O.B.E.' is short for 'Out Of Body Experience'. ADJ: v-link ADJ for n 11. If you have a short temper, you get angry very easily. ...an awkward, self-conscious woman with a short temper. ADJ see also short-tempered 12. If you are short with someone, you speak briefly and rather rudely to them, because you are impatient or angry. She seemed nervous or tense, and she was definitely short with me. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with n 13. If a person or thing is called something for short, that is the short version of their name. Opposite me was a woman called Jasminder (Jazzy for short)... PHRASE: usu n PHR 14. If you go short of something, especially food, you do not have as much of it as you want or need. Some people may manage their finances badly and therefore have to go short of essentials. PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n 15. You use in short when you have been giving a lot of details and you want to give a conclusion or summary. Try tennis, badminton or windsurfing. In short, anything challenging... PHRASE: PHR with cl 16. You use nothing short of or little short of to emphasize how great or extreme something is. For example, if you say that something is nothing short of a miracle or nothing short of disastrous, you are emphasizing that it is a miracle or it is disastrous. The results are nothing short of magnificent... PHRASE: v-link PHR adj/n [emphasis] 17. If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy. (INFORMAL) PHRASE: v-link PHR 18. If someone or something is short on a particular good quality, they do not have as much of it as you think they should have. The proposals were short on detail. PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval] 19. If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it. He stopped short of explicitly criticizing the government... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR -ing/n 20. If workers are put on short time, they are asked to work fewer hours than the normal working week, because their employer can not afford to pay them a full time wage. Workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand... Most manufacturers have had to introduce short-time working. PHRASE: on PHR, PHR n 21. If something pulls you up short or brings you up short, it makes you suddenly stop what you are doing. The name on the gate pulled me up short. PHRASE: V inflects 22. If you make short work of someone or something, you deal with them or defeat them very quickly. (INFORMAL) Agassi made short work of his opponent. PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n 23. short of breath: see breath at short notice: see notice to sell someone short: see sell to get short shrift: see shrift to cut a long story short: see story to draw the short straw: see straw in short supply: see supply in the short term: see term II. NOUN USES (shorts) 1. Shorts are trousers with very short legs, that people wear in hot weather or for taking part in sports. ...two women in bright cotton shorts and tee shirts. N-PLURAL: also a pair of N 2. Shorts are men's underpants with short legs. (mainly AM) N-PLURAL: also a pair of N 3. A short is a small amount of a strong alcoholic drink such as whisky, gin, or vodka, rather than a weaker alcoholic drink that you can drink in larger quantities. (mainly BRIT) N-COUNT 4. A short is a short film, especially one that is shown before the main film at the cinema. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Brief. 2. Near, direct, straight. 3. Compendious, succinct, concise, condensed, terse, pithy, sententious, laconic, curt, brief. 4. Abrupt, sharp, pointed, petulant, curt, brief, severe, uncivil. 5. Deficient, defective, inadequate, scanty, insufficient, imperfect. 6. Narrow, limited, contracted. 7. Lacking, wanting, destitute. 8. Brittle, friable, crumbling. 9. (Cookery.) Crisp. II. ad. Suddenly, abruptly, at once.

Moby Thesaurus

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