Word Finder - shortest

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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.

I took the shortest way through the little park behind the palace.

He walked around the front row and squeezed down the shortest route.

The longest day is 15 hours and 33 minutes, the shortest 8 hours and 50 minutes.

Here all the main drainage either runs northwards to the Gomal, passing through the uplands that lie west of the Suliman Range; or it gathers locally in narrow lateral valleys at the back of these mountains and then bursts directly eastwards through the limestone axis of the hills, making for the Indus by the shortest transverse route.

On the i r th of October, when they began their march, the road along the Danube was swept into the river, carrying with it several guns and teams, and hours were consumed in passing the shortest distances.

It also affords via Bloemfontein the shortest route (622 m.) between Durban and Kimberley.

Various computations were made at different times, from Biblical sources, as to the age of the world; and Des Vignoles, in the preface to his Chronology of Sacred History, asserts that he collected upwards of two hundred different calculations, the shortest of which reckons only 3483 years between the creation of the world and the commencement of the vulgar era and the longest 6984.

It has been found more convenient to take as northern boundaries the narrowest part of the straits near the Arctic circle, Bering Strait on the Pacific side, and on the Atlantic side the narrowest part of Davis Strait, and of Denmark Strait, then the shortest line from Iceland to the Faeroes, thence to the most northerly island of the Shetlands and thence to Cape Statland in Norway.

It has also been found convenient to take the boundary between the Atlantic and Pacific, as the shortest line across Drake Strait, from Cape Horn through Snow Island to Cape Gunnar, instead of the meridian of Cape Horn.

The Shoshoni, Shahaptin and Salish tribes are of middle stature; on the coast of British Columbia, Puget Sound, in Oregon, and northern California, are the shortest of all the North Americans save the Eskimo, while among them, on the Columbia, are taller tribes.

The shortest distance between two points on a sphere is the arc of the great circle containing the points.

The Additional Day Which Occured Every Fourth Year Was Given To February, As Being The Shortest Month, And Was Inserted In The Calendar Between The 24Th And 25Th Day.

The deliberations follow a simplified procedure, which is founded more on equity than on the more strictly legal forms, and decisions are given in the shortest possible form, in answer to carefully formulated questions or dubia.

Unlike other aquatic animals the skin undergoes no process of unhairing, the fur being of a rich dense silky wool with the softest and shortest of water hairs.

From the Nile, caravan routes lead westward to the various oases and eastward to the Red Sea, the shortest (120 to.) and most used of the eastern routes being that from Kena to Kosseir.

Trade does not extend largely between Afghanistan and India by the Tochi route, being locally confined to the valley and the districts at its head, yet this is the shortest and most direct route between Ghazni and the frontier, and in the palmy days of Ghazni raiding was the road by which the great robber Mahmud occasionally descended on to the Indus plains.

Of the periodic variable stars, the lengths of the periods range from 3 hours 12 minutes, which is the shortest yet determined, to 61o days, the longest.

Here were the shortest routes to the plain, and here the Austrians had been able to bring up their guns in sufficient numbers.

The ninth and last and shortest volume of Tristram, concluding the episode of Toby Shandy's amours, appeared in 1767.

Of these the shortest embraces the north-western slope, north of the Kapuas range, and discharges its waters into the China Sea.

Two Alpine groups were already on the way to this critical point, having been dispatched the day before, but it was clear that Krauss would try to push through by this route, the shortest way to the Tagliamento.

Successive half-turns about two skew axes a, b are equivalent to a twist about a screw whose axis is the common perpendicular to a, b, the translation being double the shortest distance, and the angle of rotation being twice the acute angle between a, b, in the direction from a to b.

It is very nearly the shortest route, great circle sailing, from Panama to Yokohama and Hongkong; the Panama Canal will shorten the sea route from Liverpool and Hamburg by about 5500 m.

They are elected by the people for a term of six years, but the term of one expires every two years, and that justice who shall have the shortest time to serve acts as chief justice.

From Kroonstad, a station midway betweenBloemfontein and Johannesburg, a railway, opened in 1906, goes via Ladysmith to Durban, and provides the shortest railway route between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and Natal.

At the close of the next session (that of 1894), after this incident had occurred, Rhodes laid on the table a bill drafted by himself, the shortest the House had ever seen.

This; however, was the case; after the shortest of intervals the duke executed something like a coup detat.

The shortest day at Archangel has only 3 hrs.

The shortest route, though not the easiest, between Kashgar and East Turkestan in the east and Ferghana and West Turkestan in the west is over the Terek pass or the pass at the head of the Alai valley, a dangerous route in winter by reason of the vast quantity of snow which usually accumulates there.

By command of Zeus (or Aeolus) the winds ceased to blow during their brooding-time, for seven days before and after the shortest day, that their eggs might not be carried away by the sea.

The Swine, the central and shortest passage between the Stettiner Haff and the Baltic Sea, was formerly flanked by the fishing villages of West and East Swine.

The fifth book contains properties of normals and their envelopes, thus embracing the germs of the theory of evolutes, and also maxima and minima problems, such as to draw the longest and shortest lines from a given point to a conic; the sixth book is concerned with the similarity of conics; the seventh with complementary chords and conjugate diameters; the eighth book, according to the restoration of Edmund Halley, continues the subject of the preceding book.

When the shortest distance obtained by the highest strain of accommodation is insufficient to recognize small objects, distinct vision is possible at even a shorter distance by placing a very small diaphragm between the eye and the object, the pencils of rays proceeding from the object-points, which otherwise are limited by the pupils of the eye, being thus restricted by the diaphragm.

This will bring great benefits in terms of getting officers back out on the streets in the shortest possible time.

For some reason she is wearing her shortest skirt and her lowest cut blouse.

We can also boast to having a Guinness World Record for the shortest interval between two goals being scored.

Then one day it happened that the shortest blade was drawn from the soil by a pregnant doe.

No balance hole features and has the shortest flywheel side seal shoulder of 10mm to suit a wider flywheel side seal shoulder of 10mm to suit a wider flywheel bearing than all other crankshafts.

Distance will be measured from the main entrance of the school according to the shortest walking route using public highways and lighted footpaths.

I wore the shortest mini skirts that I could find.

The traveling salesman problem is to find the shortest path for a salesman problem is to find the shortest path for a salesman to visit each of a list of cities.

The areas that have been exposed to the shortest burst of sunlight take on the appearance of bad sunburn.

In spite of the fact that these are among the shortest suras in the Qur'an, they are full of theological and philosophical problems.

In practice the shortest ultras are usually 50km while the longest organized test is the Sri Chinmoy race held every year in New York.

Microscience's objective is to develop the first oral anthrax vaccine in the shortest possible time.

Exner attributes the double daily maximum, which is largely a consequence of the 12-hour wave, to a thin layer near the ground, which in the early afternoon absorbs the solar radiation of shortest wave length.

Even the comparatively shortest species and genera can always be termed elongate, the broadest and shortest of all being the parasitic Malacobdella and the pelagic Pelagonemertes.

First of all, order had to be evolved from the chaos in which Sweden had been plunged by the disruption of the Union; and the shortest, perhaps the only, way thereto was to restore the royal authority, which had been in abeyance during ninety years.

These were unable to withstand the Greek settlers, and the Phoenicians of Sicily withdrew step by step to form three considerable towns in the north-west corner bf the island near to the Elymi, on whose alliance they relied, and at the shortest distance by sea from Carthage - Motya, Solous or Soluntum, and Panormus (see Palermo).

But if, using the shortest diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it will appear four times as shallow.