short

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Her sister saw the picture and long story short that was the last time she talked to her parents.

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Quick take

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of short gathered in one view.

noun

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for short.

noun

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

noun

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

noun

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

verb

cheat someone by not returning him enough money

verb

create a short circuit in

adjective

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"

adjective

(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

adjective

low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"

adjective

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"

adjective

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

adjective

not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"

adjective

of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

adjective

less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

adjective

lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"

See also: shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic

adjective

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"

adjective

marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

adverb

quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

adverb

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

adverb

clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"

adverb

at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"

adverb

so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"

adverb

at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"

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"

Example sentences

Her sister saw the picture and long story short that was the last time she talked to her parents.

Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes.

A consultancy or something where you get to work on different things in different places on short engagements.

I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API.

This life is but a breath or, as my 100-year-old grandmother said shortly before she passed on, everything that she had experienced to that point was "but a blink.

Life is too short to do everything but life is more than ample enough to do important things, things that count beyond the mundane routines of daily existence.

In the 1970s, I used to have to use an expensive short-wave radio to pick up Chinese-language radio programs in North America.

I'm the author of this app, and we're building a crowd-sourced network of live-updating Android barometers in hopes that we can improve short-term weather prediction.

When I stayed after class to ask you questions I was too shy to ask in class, or to just discuss the subject material in greater depth, youd answer in a very short, annoyed tone, as if you had more important things to do.