Synonym: brief, concise, curt, little, puny, slight, small, succinct. Antonym: long, tall. Similar words: shorts, shortly, in short, shortage, cut short, short-term, horn, horror. Meaning: [ʃɔrt /ʃɔːt] 
n. 1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed 2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference 3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base. v. 1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money 2. create a short circuit in. adj. 1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration 2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length 3. low in stature; not tall 4. not sufficient to meet a need 5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range 6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices 7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration 8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so 9. lacking foresight or scope 10. tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening 11. marked by rude or peremptory shortness. adv. 1. quickly and without warning 2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold 3. clean across 4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached 5. so as to interrupt 6. at a disadvantage 7. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.
n. 1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed 2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference 3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base. v. 1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money 2. create a short circuit in. adj. 1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration 2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length 3. low in stature; not tall 4. not sufficient to meet a need 5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range 6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices 7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration 8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so 9. lacking foresight or scope 10. tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening 11. marked by rude or peremptory shortness. adv. 1. quickly and without warning 2. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold 3. clean across 4. at some point or distance before a goal is reached 5. so as to interrupt 6. at a disadvantage 7. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner. 
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(31) This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.
(32) She was very short of breath .
(33) I replied with a short note.
(34) Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.
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(35) Their company was short of funds.
(36) The party was nothing short of a disaster.
(37) As long as they read, short but fickle.
(38) I only stayed for a short while.
(39) Small children have a very short attention span.
(40) She's too short to reach the top shelf.
(41) The curtains were an inch too short.
(42) Our supplies have fallen short.
(43) She had short brown hair and a pale complexion.
(44) Life is too short to be anything but happy.
(45) United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
(46) I'm a little short of money now.
(47) People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.
(48) It's a short distance to school.
(49) I was still in short trousers at the time.
(50) Two short quotations will illustrate my point.
(51) Don't whittle the stick into a short one.
(52) Take the short cut across the fields.
(53) There was a short[sentencedict.com], derisive laugh.
(54) The judge granted us a short adjournment.
(55) His book originated from a short story.
(56) I stayed there for a very short period.
(57) The performance fell far short of our expectations.
(58) A grub looks like a short fat worm.
(59) Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
(60) The symptoms reappeared after only a short remission.