short
1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
• Part Holonyms:
baseball diamond, diamond, infield
2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
• Syn:
short circuit
• Hypernyms:
contact, tangency
• Part Holonyms:
circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
• Syn:
shortstop
• Hypernyms:
position
• Member Holonyms:
baseball team
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
• Syn:
short-change
• Hypernyms:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble,
diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp,
gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. create a short circuit in
• Syn:
short-circuit
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
1. primarily temporal sense;
indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration (Freq. 43)
- a short life
- a short flight
- a short holiday
- a short story
- only a few short months
• Ant:
long
• Similar to:
abbreviated, shortened, truncated, brief, clipped,
fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, short and sweet, short-dated,
short-range, short-run, short-term
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness
• Attrubites:
duration, length
2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length (Freq. 21)
- short skirts
- short hair
- the board was a foot short
- a short toss
• Ant:
long
• Similar to:
abbreviated, brief, close, curtal, sawed-off,
sawn-off, shortened, shortish, short-range, short-snouted, snub,
stubby, telescoped, truncate, truncated
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness
• Attrubites:
length
3. low in stature;
not tall (Freq. 7)
- he was short and stocky
- short in stature
- a short smokestack
- a little man
• Syn:
little
• Ant:
tall
• Similar to:
chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty,
stumpy, compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset,
half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off,
short-stalked, squab, squabby
• See Also:
low
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness
• Attrubites:
stature, height
4. not sufficient to meet a need (Freq. 3)
- an inadequate income
- a poor salary
- money is short
- on short rations
- food is in short supply
- short on experience
• Syn:
inadequate, poor
• Similar to:
insufficient, deficient
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness, poorness (for: poor), inadequateness (for: inadequate)
5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- a short memory
• Syn:
unretentive, forgetful
• Ant:
retentive (for: unretentive)
• See Also:
unmindful, forgetful, mindless
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness, forgetfulness (for: forgetful)
6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- a short sale
- short in cotton
• Ant:
long
• Topics:
finance
7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- the English vowel sounds in 'pat', 'pet', 'pit', 'pot', putt' are short
• Ant:
long
• Topics:
phonetics
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
• Similar to:
insufficient, deficient
• Derivationally related forms:
scantness (for: scant)
9. 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
• Similar to:
discourteous
• Derivationally related forms:
shortness, curtness (for: curt), brusqueness (for: brusque)
10. lacking foresight or scope
- a short view of the problem
- shortsighted policies
- shortsighted critics derided the plan
- myopic thinking
• Syn:
shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
• Similar to:
improvident
• Derivationally related forms:
shortsightedness (for: shortsighted)
11. 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
• Similar to:
breakable
1. quickly and without warning (Freq. 1)
- he stopped suddenly
• Syn:
abruptly, suddenly, dead
• Derived from adjective:
sudden (for: suddenly), abrupt (for: abruptly)
2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
• Topics:
finance
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. 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
• Derived from adjective:
short (for: shortly), curt (for: curtly)
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