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short
Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 21
1. Brittle.
2. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
Part of Speech: noun
1. A summary account.
4. Breeches; shortclothes.
6. 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, // 22, 30.
Part of Speech: superlative
1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
9. 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.
10. 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.
Part of Speech: verb
Part of Speech: verb transitive