'Short' definitions:
Definition of 'short'
From: WordNet
adverb
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" [syn: short, unawares]
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" [syn: curtly, short, shortly]
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" [ant: long]
adjective
(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]
adjective
Low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [ant: tall]
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" [syn: inadequate, poor, short]
adjective
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" [syn: unretentive, forgetful, short] [ant: long, recollective, retentive, tenacious]
adjective
Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" [ant: long]
adjective
Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" [ant: long]
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" [syn: light, scant(p), short]
adjective
Lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: short, 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" [syn: brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)]
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 [syn: short circuit, short]
noun
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base [syn: shortstop, short]
verb
Cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change, short]
verb
Create a short circuit in [syn: short-circuit, short]
Definition of 'Short'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. Shirt.]
- 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. [1913 Webster]
- The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. --Isa. xxviii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. [1913 Webster]
- The life so short, the craft so long to learn. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To short absense I could yield. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. [1913 Webster]
- We shall be short in our provision. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Not distant in time; near at hand. [1913 Webster]
- Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. [1913 Webster]
- Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. [1913 Webster]
- Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Metal) Brittle. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account of the presence of phosphorus. [1913 Webster]
- 12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer. [1913 Webster]
- 13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short-winged, short-wooled, etc. [1913 Webster]
- At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
- Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
- Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
- To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See under Come, Cut, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Short'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, n.
- 1. A summary account. [1913 Webster]
- The short and the long is, our play is preferred. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. [1913 Webster]
- The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. Short, inferior hemp. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. [1913 Webster]
- If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and "naught," we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H. Sweet. [1913 Webster]
- In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.
- The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.
- The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Short'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. [1913 Webster]
- He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. --Howell. [1913 Webster]
- To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Short'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.] To shorten. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Short'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, v. i. To fail; to decrease. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'short'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- aback,
- abbreviate,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- abruptly,
- adulterated,
- aggressive,
- all in all,
- amount,
- amplify,
- animated cartoon,
- apart from,
- aposiopestic,
- arrested,
- badly off,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- barring,
- bear,
- bear account,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- before,
- bereft of,
- Bermuda shorts,
- black-and-white film,
- blemished,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- break,
- break in on,
- brief,
- briefly,
- brisk,
- broken circuit,
- brusque,
- burden,
- butt in,
- callow,
- cartoon,
- cavalier,
- charge,
- chiller,
- chunky,
- churlish,
- cinema,
- Cinemascope,
- Cinerama,
- circuit,
- circuital field,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closed circuit,
- closemouthed,
- color film,
- cometary,
- compact,
- compendious,
- complete circuit,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- core,
- couchant,
- cramped,
- creepie,
- crisp,
- crouched,
- crusty,
- cursory,
- curt,
- curtail,
- curtailed,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- cut off,
- cut short,
- damaged,
- dead circuit,
- debased,
- decreased,
- decurtate,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- depressed,
- deprived of,
- depthless,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- diminished,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- direct,
- discourteous,
- distressed,
- docked,
- documentary,
- documentary film,
- down to bedrock,
- dumb,
- dumpy,
- dwarfish,
- economical of words,
- educational film,
- electrify,
- elfin,
- elliptic,
- embarrassed,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- energize,
- epigrammatic,
- erroneous,
- except for,
- excepting,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- exiguous,
- fail,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- feature,
- feeling the pinch,
- few,
- film,
- flashing,
- flat,
- fleet,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flickering,
- footling,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- forthwith,
- found wanting,
- galvanic circuit,
- galvanize,
- generate,
- gist,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- half-pint,
- hard up,
- harsh,
- hastily,
- horror picture,
- horse opera,
- hot circuit,
- hot pants,
- hurriedly,
- hypoplastic,
- ill off,
- immature,
- impaired,
- impecunious,
- imperfect,
- impolite,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in a nutshell,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in Queer Street,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in short,
- in short supply,
- in straitened circumstances,
- in want of,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderate,
- indisposed to talk,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- instantaneous,
- instantly,
- insufficient,
- interrupt,
- irascible,
- knee-high,
- knocked flat,
- lacking,
- laconic,
- laid low,
- land-poor,
- lateral circuit,
- leaving out,
- leg,
- lessened,
- limited,
- little,
- live circuit,
- loop,
- loop in,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- magnetic circuit,
- makeshift,
- meager,
- meat,
- mediocre,
- meteoric,
- microcircuit,
- midget,
- miniature,
- minus,
- minuscule,
- missing,
- mixed,
- momentary,
- motion picture,
- motion-picture show,
- movie,
- moving picture,
- multiple circuit,
- multiple series,
- mum,
- mute,
- narrow,
- neap,
- needing,
- negligible,
- newsreel,
- no great shakes,
- not perfect,
- nudie,
- off,
- offhand,
- on the edge,
- one-horse,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- path,
- penniless,
- peremptorily,
- petite,
- petty,
- photodrama,
- photoplay,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- picture,
- picture show,
- piddling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- pith,
- pithy,
- plug in,
- pocket,
- pointed,
- poky,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- pornographic film,
- precluding,
- preview,
- printed circuit,
- prone,
- pruned,
- puny,
- purport,
- quick,
- quiet,
- rare,
- recumbent,
- reduced,
- reserved,
- rough,
- runty,
- scant,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- scrimpy,
- sententious,
- series multiple,
- setting aside,
- severe,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- shock,
- short account,
- short and sweet,
- short circuit,
- short interest,
- short of,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- short seller,
- short side,
- short-circuit,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- short-termed,
- shorten,
- shortened,
- shorts,
- shy,
- shy of,
- silent,
- silent film,
- sketchy,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- skin flick,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- smallish,
- snappish,
- sneak preview,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- spaghetti Western,
- sparing of words,
- sparse,
- Spartan,
- speechless,
- speedy,
- squat,
- squatty,
- squeezed,
- step down,
- step up,
- stiffen,
- stint,
- stooped,
- stop,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- stubby,
- stumpy,
- stunted,
- succinct,
- sudden,
- suddenly,
- summary,
- superficial,
- supine,
- surly,
- swift,
- switch off,
- switch on,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- talkie,
- talking picture,
- Technicolor,
- temporary,
- terminate,
- terse,
- testy,
- thick,
- thickset,
- thriller,
- thrust,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tiny,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- trailer,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trifling,
- trim,
- trivial,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- turn off,
- turn on,
- two-by-four,
- unanticipatedly,
- unaware,
- unblessed with,
- uncivil,
- underdeveloped,
- underground film,
- undeveloped,
- unelevated,
- uneven,
- unexpectedly,
- unfinished,
- ungracious,
- unloquacious,
- unmoneyed,
- unperfected,
- unpossessed of,
- unprosperous,
- unreached,
- unsound,
- untalkative,
- unthorough,
- upshot,
- vector field,
- vest-pocket,
- void of,
- wanting,
- wee,
- Western,
- without warning,
- word-bound,
- wordless
Short, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Short, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000) :
328
Housing Units (2000) :
143
Land area (2000) :
23.781084 sq. miles (61.592721 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.059329 sq. miles (0.153662 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
23.840413 sq. miles (61.746383 sq. km)
FIPS code :
67400
Located within :
Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location :
35.573047 N, 94.506071 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Short'
- In short,
- Shortly,
- Shortness,
- The shorts,
- for short,
- short of,
- shorts,
- A short cut,
- At short notice,
- Hove short,
- Jockey shorts,
- Short Pump,
- Short circuit,
- Short division,
- Short meter,
- Short rib,
- Short sea,
- Short suit,
- Short, OK,
- Stub short,
- The long and the short,
- To be on short commons,
- To come short,
- To cut short,
- To fall short,
- To sell short,
- To step short,
- bermuda shorts,
- break short,
- caught short,
- come short,
- cut short,
- fall short,
- fall short of,
- in short order,
- in short supply,
- jamaica shorts,
- pepin the short,
- pull up short,
- run short,
- sell short,
- short account,
- short and sweet,
- short aria,
- short bone,
- short covering,
- short hundredweight,
- short iron,
- short letter,
- short line,
- short list,
- short lived,
- short order,
- short pants,
- short ribs,
- short sale,
- short selling,
- short shrift,
- short sleep,
- short sleeve,
- short slip,
- short story,
- short subject,
- short temper,
- short ton,
- short wave,
- short whist,
- short's aster,
- shortness of breath,
- Cold-short,
- Cold-shortness,
- Hot-short,
- Red-short,
- Red-shortness,
- Short Pump, VA,
- Short-breathed,
- Short-circuit,
- Short-circuited,
- Short-circuiting,
- Short-dated,
- Short-handed,
- Short-jointed,
- Short-lived,
- Short-spoken,
- Short-waisted,
- Short-winded,
- Short-witted,
- To heave a cable short,
- To make short boards,
- chuck short ribs,
- short gastric artery,
- short saphenous vein,
- short-beaked,
- short-billed,
- short-bodied,
- short-change,
- short-eared,
- short-grass,
- short-haired,
- short-handled,
- short-headed,
- short-nosed,
- short-order,
- short-range,
- short-run,
- short-sighted,
- short-snouted,
- short-spurred,
- short-staffed,
- short-stalked,
- short-stemmed,
- short-stop,
- short-tailed,
- short-tempered,
- short-term,
- short-winged,
- 00-database-short,
- 00-gcide-short,
- To cover one's short contracts,
- To keep a person on a short leash,
- short-eared owl,
- short-horned buffalo,
- short-horned grasshopper,
- short-leaf pine,
- short-staple cotton,
- short-stop bath,
- short-tailed shrew,
- short-term memory,
- short-toed eagle,
- german short-haired pointer,
- short-billed marsh wren,
- short-spurred fragrant orchid,
- choleric irascible hotheaded hot-headed hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered