Word Finder - short

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A short circuit.

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A short film.

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A short version of a garment in a particular size.

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38 short suits fit me right off the rack.

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A shortstop.

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Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.

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A short seller.

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

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A short sale.

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

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A summary account.

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A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

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An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

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An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.

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To cause a short circuit in (something).

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Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

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To shortchange.

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To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

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

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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.

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To shorten.

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

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(of a person) Of comparatively small height.

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Having little duration.

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Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.

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

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“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".

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(of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.

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(of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.

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(of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.

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(of pastries) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening.)

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Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

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He gave a short answer to the question.

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Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

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a short supply of provisions

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Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.

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I'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.

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Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.

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an account which is short of the truth

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Undiluted; neat.

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Not distant in time; near at hand.

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

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

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Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

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He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.

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Unawares.

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The recent developments at work caught them short.

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Without achieving a goal or requirement.

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His speech fell short of what was expected.

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(of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.

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With a negative ownership position.

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We went short most finance companies in July.

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Deficient in.

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He's short common sense.

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Having a negative position in.

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

Life's too short as it is.

His stunt tonight was nothing short of jealousy.

In short, she had a cushion job.

After a short silence he rose.

I just need a short break.

Hard life is a short life, for most folks around here.

His laugh was short and humorless.

After what seemed like a short wait, they boarded another plane.

Mrs. Graves is making short dresses for Natalie.

Then he noticed when he bred tall pea plants with another tall plant, he occasionally got a short offspring, but usually tall ones.

She may be out of the loop for a short time.

His laugh was short and harsh.

Naw. I'm a short timer with mostly circulars on my desk.

Dad had taken a short cut then.

Even she would have had trouble working with something so little, but his big hands dispensed with the job in short order.

She cut her explanation off short as Cade pulled into the drive.

He would fly to Los Angeles, then transfer for the short hop north to Santa Barbara.

If it were a person, it still couldn't even order a beer to toast itself for all it has done in such a short time.

Twenty-five days later, while she was on a short visit away from home, she wrote to her mother.

We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.

A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out.

He had a habit of stopping short in the middle of his talk and gazing intently with his laughing, kindly eyes.

After a short silence the countess spoke again but this time no one replied.

But, noticing his mistake, he broke off short and, with a frown, greeted Dolokhov as a stranger, asking what he could do for him.

Dolokhov, as if he had not heard the question, did not reply, but lighting a short French pipe which he took from his pocket began asking the officer in how far the road before them was safe from Cossacks.

With a short coat and his hair cropped; just as if, well, just as if he had come straight from the bath...

Sarah glanced up with a short laugh.

I have plans too, you know - and they don't include dropping out three months short of graduation.

She stopped short at the wagon.

He led her down a short hallway and opened the first door.

I'm in another country, if only for a short while to see if the pickings here are to my liking.

Any conversations I had with Martha were short, bordering on abrupt.

There is no excuse for short play on his part, and his bowls would be better off the green than obstructing the path of subsequent bowls.

For a short period the day was changed to Tuesday, but the market was given up before 1888.

At the Restoration in 1660 he was arrested for preaching, and after a short period of freedom he was again seized, and he remained in prison for seven years.

A short distance south of the city is Red Mountain, 25 m.

It was based on a short confession drafted by Calvin in 1557, and may still be regarded, though once or twice revised, as the confession of the French Protestant Church.

He noticed that when he bred a tall one with a short one, sometimes he got tall offspring and sometimes a short offspring.

He then noticed that when he bred short ones with short ones, he always got short ones.

Dictators, in short, are the scourge of the earth.

We were sitting together in a hammock which swung from two solemn pines at a short distance from the house.

Sometimes she tries to spell very short words on her small [fingers] but she is too young to remember hard words.

Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with low neck and short sleeves and quite a train?

Since I wrote you, Helen and I have gone to live all by ourselves in a little garden-house about a quarter of a mile from her home, only a short distance from Ivy Green, the Keller homestead.

As we were passing a large globe a short time after she had written the questions, she stopped before it and asked, "Who made the REAL world?"

The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite grayish color.

When her hair was done, Natasha, in her short petticoat from under which her dancing shoes showed, and in her mother's dressing jacket, ran up to Sonya, scrutinized her, and then ran to her mother.

Early in the morning of the sixth of October Pierre went out of the shed, and on returning stopped by the door to play with a little blue- gray dog, with a long body and short bandy legs, that jumped about him.

We're short handed so you wind up taking care of your own team and wagon.

It was in her mind to tell Claudette to take a long walk off a short pier, but a cool voice interrupted them at that moment.