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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(91) The city succumbed after only a short siege.
(92) Impatiently he cut short what I was telling him.
(93) He expanded his short story into a book.
(94) Youth is too short to be anything but crazy.sentencedict.com
(95) Exploitable raw materials were in short supply.
(96) Love remained short,but the memory lasts long.
(97) He published a collection of short stories.
(98) Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.
(99) I must render down this fat; we are short of lard.
(100) His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.
(101) It can be useful to write a short summary of your argument first.
(102) She likes to wear short skirts to show off her legs.
(103) A short while ago, however, he became a busdriver and he has not regretted it.
(104) The decree stopped short of a full declaration of independence.
(105) Each child had to give a short speech to the rest of the class.
(106) Short term contracts are now the norm with some big companies.
(107) After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.
(108) He is a tall man but his wife is a short woman.
(109) After a short rest the travelers pushed on towards the coast.
(110) We should go on to the next item for time is short.
(111) The writer expanded his short novel into a long one.
(112) He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
(113) It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
(114) Life is too short. Be sure that you have never had any regrets in your life.
(115) The game continued after a short interruption because of rain.
(116) Is it the fashion to wear short skirts? Yes, short skirts are in fashion.
(117) Oil deliveries will fall 2.5 million tonnes short of demand this year.
(118) If the short cut to learning, it also must be diligent.
(119) In a short time the number of cells is more than a trillion.
(120) Lots of people were taking a short siesta in the shade.