1. 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" 
2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
   "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" 
3. Low in stature; not tall
   "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
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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
   - short circuit 
3. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
   - shortstop

1. Quickly and without warning
   - abruptly, suddenly, dead 
2. Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
   "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" 
3. Clean across
   "the car's axle snapped short" 
4. At some point or distance before a goal is reached
   "he fell short of our expectations" 
5. So as to interrupt
   "She took him up short before he could continue" 
6. At a disadvantage
   "I was caught short"
   - unawares 
7. In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
   "he talked short with everyone"
   - curtly, shortly

1. Cheat someone by not returning him enough money
   - short-change 
2. Create a short circuit in
   - short-circuit

Derived forms: shorting, shorts, shorted, shortest, shorter

See also: abbreviated, breakable, brief, chunky, clipped, close, compact, curtal [archaic], deficient, discourteous, dumpy, duration, fleeting, forgetful, fugitive, half-length, heavyset, height, improvident, insufficient, length, low, low-set, mindless, momentaneous, momentary, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off [N. Amer], sawn-off [Brit], short and sweet, short-dated [Brit], shortened, shortish, shortness, short-range, short-run, short-snouted, short-stalked, short-term, snub, squab, squabby, squat, squatty, stature, stocky, stubby, stumpy, telescoped, thick, thickset, truncate, truncated, unmindful

Type of: bunco [N. Amer], con, contact, create, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick [N. Amer], grift [N. Amer], gyp, hornswoggle [N. Amer], make, mulct, nobble [Brit], parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, position, ream [N. Amer], rook, scam, short-change, swindle, tangency, tract, victimise [Brit], victimize

Antonym: long, tall

Part of: baseball diamond, baseball team, circuit, diamond, electric circuit, electrical circuit, infield

Encyclopedia: Short, OK Short Short, Oklahoma Short, sharp shock Short, William

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