4. (adj)short primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
5. (adj)short (primarily spatial sense) having littlelength or lacking in length "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
6. (adj)short, little low in stature; not tall "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
7. (adj)inadequate, poor, short not sufficient to meet a need "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
8. (adj)unretentive, forgetful, short (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range "a short memory"
9. (adj)short not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
10. (adj)short of speech sounds or syllables of relatively shortduration "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
11. (adj)light, scant(p), short less than the correct or legal or fullamount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
12. (adj)short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic lacking foresight or scope "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
13. (adj)short tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a largeamount of shortening "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
14. (verb)brusque, brusk, curt, short(p) marked by rude or peremptory shortness "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
16. (adverb)short-circuit, short create a shortcircuit in
17. (adverb)abruptly, suddenly, short, dead quickly and without warning "he stopped suddenly"
18. (adverb)short without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
19. (adverb)short clean across "the car's axle snapped short"
20. (adverb)short at some point or distance before a goal is reached "he fell short of our expectations"
21. (adverb)short so as to interrupt "She took him up short before he could continue"
22. (adverb)short, unawares at a disadvantage "I was caught short"
23. (adverb)curtly, short, shortly 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"
4. short ≠ long a short word beginning with 'b'; a short speech
5. short short for a shortversion of Sam is short for Samantha or Samuel.
6. short rude and impatient in the way you speak to sb; = curt He was a little short with her.
7. short not having enough short of money/food/time
8. short at short notice without muchwarning It's a job where you can be asked to go somewhere at very short notice.
9. (adverb)short not quite reaching a particularpoint The final total came in just short of a million.
10. short cut short to stop sth earlier than planned The singer has been forced to cut short her world tour.
11. short fall short of to not reach a particulargoal or standard redevelopment plans that fell short of expectations
12. short run short (of sth) (of a supply) to not havemuchleft We're running short of paper for the photocopier.
13. short short of indicates the most extremething you could do; = besides Short of resigning, I have very few choices.
Definition of 'Short'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adverb)Short 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 sameletter 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 shortsound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30
2. (adverb)Short in a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stopshort in one's course; to turnshort
9. Short not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, shortbreath
10. Short limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a shortsupply of provisions, or of water
11. Short 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
12. Short deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith
19. Short 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
Definitions of Short 
Afrikaans: kort
Arabic: قَصير
Bulgarian: къс
Brazilian: curto
Czech: krátký
German: kurz
Danish: kort
Greek: κοντός, που δεν είναι μακ
Spanish: corto
Estonian: lühike
Farsi: كوتاه
Finnish: lyhyt
French: court
Hebrew: קָצָר
Hindi: छोटा
Croatian: kratak
Hungarian: rövid
Indonesian: pendek
Icelandic: stuttur
Italian: corto
Japanese: 短い
Korean: 짧은
Lithuanian: trumpas
Latvian: īss
Malay: pendek
Dutch: kort
Norwegian: kort
Polish: krótki
Persian: كوتاه
Pashto: لنډ، ټيټ، لږ، كم (وخت): ل
Portuguese: curto
Romanian: scurt
Russian: короткий
Slovak: krátky
Slovenian: kratek
Serbian: kratak
Swedish: kort
Thai: สั้น
Turkish: kısa
Taiwanese: 短的
Ukrainian: короткий
Urdu: لمبائی میں کم
Vietnamese: ngắn
Chinese: 短的
