Definition/Meaning of short

• English - Adjective: short ( comparative shorter , superlative shortest ) Having a small distance from one end or edge to another , either horizontally or vertically . ( of a person ) Of comparatively little height . Having little duration; opposite of long . Our meeting was a short six minutes today . Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long . ( followed by for ) Of a word or phrase ,…
• English - Adverb: short ( not comparable ) Abruptly , curtly , briefly . They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street . He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting . The boss got a message and cut the meeting short . Unawares . The recent developments at work caught them short . Without achieving a goal or requirement . His speech fell short of what was expected . ( cricket , of the manner of…
• English - Noun: short ( plural shorts ) A short circuit . A short film . 2012 July 12 , Sam Adams , AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift [1] Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age . Used to indicate a short-length version of a…
• English - Verb: short ( third-person singular simple present shorts , present participle shorting , simple past and past participle shorted ) ( transitive ) To cause a short circuit in (something). ( intransitive ) Of an electrical circuit , to short circuit . ( transitive ) To shortchange . ( transitive ) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount . This is the third time I've caught them shorting…
• English - Preposition: short Deficient in . We are short a few men on the second shift . He's short common sense . ( finance ) Having a negative position in . I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend . Synonyms ( deficient in ) : lacking , short on