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. (adj)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. (verb)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"
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