short

short (http://definr.com/short)

     adj 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" [ant: long]
     2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
        length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
        foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: long]
     3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
        in stature"; "a short smokestack" [ant: tall]
     4: 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" [syn: inadequate,
         poor]
     5: (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one
        sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale";
        "short in cotton" [ant: long]
     6: (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of
        relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel
        sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot',  putt') [ant: long]
     7: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender
        and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a
        short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
     8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
        deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
        "regularly gives short weight" [syn: light, scant(p)]
     9: (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of
        relatively brief duration
     10: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
         memory"
     11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
         "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
         the plan" [syn: shortsighted, unforesightful]
     12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
         students" [syn: unforbearing]
     13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric,
          irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered,
          short-tempered]
     14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
         town" [syn: shortest]
     15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
         less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
         very short with him" [syn: brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)]
     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 [syn: short circuit]
     3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
        is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base [syn: shortstop]
     adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly,
             suddenly, dead]
     2: (finance) 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" [syn: unawares]
     7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
     8: 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" [syn:
        curtly, shortly]
     v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change]
     2: create a short-circuit in [syn: short-circuit]