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Short short

Spelling: [shawrt]

IPA: /ʃɔrt/

Short is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Short (horst).

Definitions for Short

noun

1. something that is short.
2. that which is deficient or lacking.
3. the sum and substance of a matter; gist (usually preceded by the).
4. shorts. trousers, knee-length or shorter. short pants worn by men as an undergarment. knee breeches, formerly worn by men. Finance. short-term bonds. Mining. crushed ore failing to pass through a given screen, thus being of a larger given size than a specific grade. Compare fine1 (def 28a). remnants, discards, or refuse of various cutting and manufacturing processes.
5. a size of garment for men who are shorter than average:
6. a garment, as a suit or overcoat, in such a size.
7. Military. a shot that strikes or bursts short of the target.
8. Electricity. short circuit.
9. Prosody. a short sound or syllable.
10. Baseball. shortstop (def 1).
11. Movies. short subject.
12. Finance. short seller.
13. a deficiency or the amount of a deficiency.
14. Chiefly British. a small drink of straight whiskey; shot.

Idioms

1. cut short, to end abruptly; terminate:
2. fall / come short, to fail to reach a particular standard. to prove insufficient; be lacking:
3. for short, by way of abbreviation:
4. in short, in summary. in few words; in brief:
5. make short work of. work (def 53).
6. run short, to be in insufficient supply:
7. sell short, Stock Exchange. to sell stocks or the like without having them in one's actual possession at the time of the sale. to disparage or underestimate:
8. short and sweet, pleasantly brief. pertinent:
9. short for, being a shorter form of; abbreviated to: .
10. short of, less than; inferior to. inadequately supplied with (money, food, etc.). without going to the length of; failing of; excluding:

adverb

1. abruptly or suddenly:
2. briefly; curtly.
3. on the near side of an intended or particular point:
4. Baseball. with the hands higher on the handle of the bat than usual: in a fielding position closer to home plate than usual.

adjective

1. having little length; not long.
2. having little height; not tall:
3. extending or reaching only a little way:
4. brief in duration; not extensive in time:
5. brief or concise, as writing.
6. rudely brief; abrupt; hurting:
7. low in amount; scanty:
8. not reaching a point, mark, target, or the like; not long enough or far enough.
9. below the standard in extent, quantity, duration, etc.:
10. having a scanty or insufficient amount of (often followed by in or on):
11. being below a necessary or desired level; lacking:
12. Cookery. (of pastry and the like) crisp and flaky; breaking or crumbling readily from being made with a large proportion of butter or other shortening. (of dough) containing a relatively large amount of shortening.
13. (of metals) deficient in tenacity; friable; brittle.
14. (of the head or skull) of less than ordinary length from front to back.
15. Stock Exchange. not possessing at the time of sale commodities or stocks that one sells. noting or pertaining to a sale of commodities or stocks that the seller does not possess, depending for profit on a decline in prices.
16. Phonetics. lasting a relatively short time: . belonging to a class of sounds considered as usually shorter in duration than another class, as the vowel of but as compared to that of bought, and in many languages serving as a distinctive feature of phonemes, as the a in German Bann in contrast with the ah in Bahn, or the t in Italian fato in contrast with the tt in fatto (opposed to long). having the sound of the English vowels in bat, bet, bit, hot, but, and put, historically descended from vowels that were short in duration.
17. Prosody. (of a syllable in quantitative verse) lasting a relatively shorter time than a long syllable. unstressed (def 1).
18. (of an alcoholic drink) small:
19. Chiefly British. (of whiskey) undiluted; straight.
20. Ceramics. (of clay) not plastic enough to be modeled.
21. Ropemaking. hard (def 39).

verb (used with object)

1. to cause a short circuit in.
2. to cheat by giving less than is expected or deserved; shortchange.

verb (used without object)

1. to short-circuit.

Origin of Short

before 900; Middle English schort (adj.), Old English sceort; cognate with Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr shortness, scarcity

Examples for Short

In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.

The exposure and buzz from short Term have raised her profile considerably.

But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.

In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.

Paris on short notice will be cosily and coaxingly intimate.

But the short of it is, Henry found himself facing work or starvation.

I never knew a man to get so intimate on short acquaintance.

The narrative was broken off short by a cry of jubilee in the court.

In a short time, I shall not have sufficient strength to impart all I have to say.