| Noun | 1. | short - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | |
| 2. | short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential differencetangency, contact - (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" | |
| 3. | short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd baseposition - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" | |
| Verb | 1. | short - cheat someone by not returning him enough moneybunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, gyp, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" | |
| 2. | short - create a short-circuit increate, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" | |
| Adj. | 1. | short - 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"long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" | |
| 2. | short - primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"long - primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" | |
| 3. | short - low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"low - literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"; "a small voice" tall - great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" | |
| 4. | short - 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" | |
| 5. | short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"finance - the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets long - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" | |
| 6. | short - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')phonetics - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis long - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') | |
| 7. | short - 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"tender - easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" | |
| 8. | short - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" | |
| 9. | short - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief durationmetrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | |
| 10. | short - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" | |
| 11. | short - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"improvident - not provident; not providing for the future | |
| 12. | short - unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"impatient - restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism" | |
| 13. | short - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man" | |
| 14. | short - most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"direct - direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" | |
| 15. | short - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"discourteous - showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young" | |
| Adv. | 1. | short - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" | |
| 2. | short - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"finance - the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | |
| 3. | short - clean across; "the car's axle snapped short" | |
| 4. | short - at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations" | |
| 5. | short - so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue" | |
| 6. | short - at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" | |
| 7. | short - tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel" | |
| 8. | short - 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" | |