Princeton's WordNet

1. short(noun)

   the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

2. short circuit, short(noun)

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

3. shortstop, short(adj)

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

4. short(adj)

   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. short(adj)

   (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

   "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

6. short, little(adj)

   low in stature; not tall

   "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"

7. inadequate, poor, short(adj)

   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. unretentive, forgetful, short(adj)

   (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

   "a short memory"

9. short(adj)

   not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

   "a short sale"; "short in cotton"

10. short(adj)

    of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

    "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

11. light, scant(p), short(adj)

    less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

    "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

12. short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic(adj)

    lacking foresight or scope

    "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"

13. short(adj)

    tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

    "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"

14. brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)(verb)

    marked by rude or peremptory shortness

    "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

15. short-change, short(verb)

    cheat someone by not returning him enough money

16. short-circuit, short(adverb)

    create a short circuit in

17. abruptly, suddenly, short, dead(adverb)

    quickly and without warning

    "he stopped suddenly"

18. short(adverb)

    without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

    "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

19. short(adverb)

    clean across

    "the car's axle snapped short"

20. short(adverb)

    at some point or distance before a goal is reached

    "he fell short of our expectations"

21. short(adverb)

    so as to interrupt

    "She took him up short before he could continue"

22. short, unawares(adverb)

    at a disadvantage

    "I was caught short"

23. curtly, short, shortly(adverb)

    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"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. short(adjective)ʃɔrt

   ≠ long

   The skirt is too short.; a short piece of string; short hair

2. shortʃɔrt

   ≠ long

   a short walk in the woods; The movie was short.

3. shortʃɔrt

   ≠ tall

   a short, plump lady

4. shortʃɔrt

   ≠ long

   a short word beginning with 'b'; a short speech

5. shortʃɔrt

   a short version of

   Sam is short for Samantha or Samuel.

6. shortʃɔrt

   rude and impatient in the way you speak to sb; = curt

   He was a little short with her.

7. shortʃɔrt

   not having enough

   short of money/food/time

8. shortʃɔrt

   without much warning

   It's a job where you can be asked to go somewhere at very short notice.

9. short(adverb)ʃɔrt

   not quite reaching a particular point

   The final total came in just short of a million.

10. shortʃɔrt

    to stop sth earlier than planned

    The singer has been forced to cut short her world tour.

11. shortʃɔrt

    to not reach a particular goal or standard

    redevelopment plans that fell short of expectations

12. shortʃɔrt

    (of a supply) to not have much left

    We're running short of paper for the photocopier.

13. shortʃɔrt

    indicates the most extreme thing you could do; = besides

    Short of resigning, I have very few choices.

Wiktionary

1. short(Noun)

   A short circuit.

2. short(Noun)

   A short film.

3. short(Noun)

   shortstop

   Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.

4. short(Noun)

   A short seller

   The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.

5. short(Noun)

   A short sale

   He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.

6. short(Verb)

   To cause a short circuit in (something).

7. short(Verb)

   Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

8. short(Verb)

   To shortchange.

9. short(Verb)

   To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

   This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.

10. short(Verb)

    To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

11. short(Adverb)

    abruptly

    They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.

12. short(Adverb)

    unawares

    The recent developments at work caught them short.

13. short(Adverb)

    briefly

    The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.

14. short(Adverb)

    curtly

    He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.

15. short(Adverb)

    without achieving a goal or requirement

    His speech fell short of what was expected.

16. short(Adverb)

    of a cricket ball, to bounce relatively far from the batsman so that it bounces higher than normal; opposite of full

17. short(Adverb)

    With a negative ownership position.

    We went short most finance companies in July.

18. short(Adjective)

    Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

19. short(Adjective)

    Of comparatively little height.

20. short(Adjective)

    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.

21. short(Adjective)

    Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).

    u201CPhoneu201D is short for u201Ctelephoneu201D and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".

22. short(Adjective)

    that bounced relatively far from the batsman

23. short(Adjective)

    relatively close to the batsman

24. short(Adjective)

    brittle (of pastry); see also shortening, shortcrust

25. short(Adjective)

    missing, deficient

    The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.

26. short(Adjective)

    Any financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

    I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.

27. short(Preposition)

    Deficient in.

28. short(Preposition)

    Having a negative position in.

    I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.

Webster Dictionary

1. Short(u)

   not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight

2. Short(u)

   not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath

3. Short(u)

   limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water

4. Short(u)

   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

5. Short(u)

   deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith

6. Short(u)

   not distant in time; near at hand

7. Short(u)

   limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory

8. Short(u)

   less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of

9. Short(u)

   abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question

10. Short(u)

    breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry

11. Short(u)

    brittle

12. Short(u)

    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

13. Short(adverb)

    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

14. Short(noun)

    a summary account

15. Short(noun)

    the part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran

16. Short(noun)

    short, inferior hemp

17. Short(noun)

    breeches; shortclothes

18. Short(noun)

    a short sound, syllable, or vowel

19. Short(adverb)

    in a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short

20. Short(verb)

    to shorten

21. Short(verb)

    to fail; to decrease

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