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short Edit
Adjective
    primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
eg: a short life

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    primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
eg: a short flight

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short Edit
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    primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
eg: a short holiday

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    primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
eg: a short story

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    primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
eg: only a few short months

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Adjective
    (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
eg: short skirts

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short Edit
Adjective
    (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
eg: short hair

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    (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
eg: the board was a foot short

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    (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
eg: a short toss

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Adjective
    low in stature; not tall
eg: he was short and stocky

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short Edit
Adjective
    low in stature; not tall
eg: short in stature

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Adjective
    low in stature; not tall
eg: a short smokestack

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Adjective
    not sufficient to meet a need
eg: money is short

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Adjective
    not sufficient to meet a need
eg: on short rations

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    not sufficient to meet a need
eg: food is in short supply

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Adjective
    not sufficient to meet a need
eg: short on experience

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Adjective
    (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
eg: a short memory

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Adjective
    not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
eg: a short sale

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short Edit
Adjective
    not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
eg: short in cotton

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short Edit
Adjective
    of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
eg: the English vowel sounds in 'pat', 'pet', 'pit', 'pot', putt' are short

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short Edit
Adjective
    less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
eg: regularly gives short weight

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Adjective
    lacking foresight or scope
eg: a short view of the problem

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Adjective
    tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
eg: shortbread is a short crumbly cookie

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short Edit
Adjective
    tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
eg: a short flaky pie crust

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Adjective
    marked by rude or peremptory shortness
eg: the salesgirl was very short with him

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short Edit
Noun
    the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

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short Edit
Noun
    accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

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short Edit
Noun
    the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

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short Edit
Adverb
    quickly and without warning

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short Edit
Adverb
    without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
eg: he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash

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short Edit
Adverb
    clean across
eg: the car's axle snapped short

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short Edit
Adverb
    at some point or distance before a goal is reached
eg: he fell short of our expectations

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Adverb
    so as to interrupt
eg: She took him up short before he could continue

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Adverb
    at a disadvantage
eg: I was caught short

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short Edit
Adverb
    in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
eg: he talked short with everyone

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short Edit
Verb
    cheat someone by not returning him enough money

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short Edit
Verb
    create a short circuit in

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short
    അദീര്‍ഘ, കുറിയ, കുറു, ഹ്രസ്വ, ഹ്രസ്വക, ചെറു, കട്ട, കൂഴ, കൂഴ്, ന്യക്, പറു

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Entries from Olam Open Database

Short()::
    ഉടനെ,
    കാലവിളംമെന്യേ,
    അളവില്‍ കുറഞ്ഞ,
    സമയം,
    തുക,
    ഒരു വൈദ്യുതി ഷോര്‍ട്ട് സര്‍ക്യൂട്ട്,
Short(adjective)::
    കമ്മിയായ,
    കുറുകിയ,
    ചെറിയ,
    അല്‍പ നേരത്തേക്കുള്ള,
    സംക്ഷിപ്‌തമായ,
    ഇല്ലാത്ത,
    ഹ്രസ്വമായ,
    കുള്ളനായ,
    സ്വല്‍പമായ,
    തികയാത്ത,
    വിസ്‌താരമില്ലാത്ത,
    ന്യൂനമായ,
    ദൂരവ്യാപകമല്ലാത്ത,
    ചുരുക്കത്തിലുള്ള,
    കുറവായ,
    കുറച്ചു കാലത്തേക്കു മാത്രം ഫലവത്തായ,
    മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത,
    വേഗത്തില്‍ മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത,
    ചെറുതായ,
    കുറഞ്ഞ,
Short(adverb)::
    ചുരുക്കി,
    അകലം എന്നിവയില്‍ സാധാരണയില്‍ കുറവായ,
    പൊക്കം കുറഞ്ഞപെട്ടെന്ന്,
    ഹ്രസ്വമായത്,
    ഉടന്‍ചെറിയതായ അവസ്ഥ,
    സംക്ഷേപം,
    വിസ്താരം കുറഞ്ഞ,
Short(noun)::
    വേഗം തീരുന,
    അല്‍പനേരത്തിനുശേഷം,
    കമ്മി,
    ന്യൂനത,
    വേഗം,
    കിഴിവ്‌,
    മുട്ടോളമെത്തുന്ന കാലുറ,

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