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(adverb) tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel" |
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(adverb) at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" |
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Synonyms: unawares |
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(adverb) so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue" |
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(adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations" |
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(adverb) clean across; "the car's axle snapped short" |
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(adverb) (finance) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" |
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(satellite adjective) most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town" |
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Synonyms: shortest |
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(adjective) primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
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Antonyms: long |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: long |
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(adjective) (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') |
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Antonyms: long |
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(adjective) (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" |
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Antonyms: long |
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(satellite adjective) unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students" |
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Synonyms: unforbearing |
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(satellite adjective) lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan" |
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Synonyms: shortsighted, unforesightful |
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(satellite adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" |
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(satellite adjective) (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration |
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(adjective) low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack" |
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Antonyms: tall |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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(noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
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Related Words: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
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(adverb) 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" |
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Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
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(noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base |
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Synonyms: shortstop |
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Related Words: position |
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(verb) create a short-circuit in |
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Synonyms: short-circuit |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
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Synonyms: short-change |
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Related Words: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gyp, mulct, nobble, rook, swindle |
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(noun) electrical circuit is overloaded |
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Synonyms: short circuit |
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Related Words: breakdown, equipment failure |
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(adverb) quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" |
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Synonyms: abruptly, dead, suddenly |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: inadequate, poor |
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(satellite adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" |
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Synonyms: light, scant |
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(satellite adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" |
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Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
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(satellite adjective) quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" |
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Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
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