'Shortness' definitions:
Definition of 'shortness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The property of being of short spatial extent; "the shortness of the Channel crossing" [ant: longness]
noun
The condition of being short of something; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath"
noun
The property of being truncated or short [syn: shortness, truncation]
noun
The property of being of short temporal extent; "the shortness of air travel time" [ant: longness]
noun
The property of being shorter than average stature [ant: tallness]
noun
Definition of 'Shortness'
From: GCIDE
- Shortness \Short"ness\, n. The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Shortness'
- In short,
- Short,
- Shortly,
- 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