short meaning
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[ʃɔːt] [ʃɔɹt] [ʃɑɹt] [-ɔː(ɹ)t] 
US WShort
- Short or shortness may refer to:
FR short 
- NounPLshorts
- A short circuit.
- A short film.
- Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
- 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
- Do you have that size in a short.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
- (finance) A short seller.
- The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- (finance) A short sale.
- He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
- A summary account.
- (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A short circuit.
- VerbSGshortsPRshortingPT, PPshorted
- VT To cause a short circuit in (something).
- VI Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
- VT To shortchange.
- VT To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
- VT (business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- OBS To shorten.
- VT To cause a short circuit in (something).
- AdjectiveCOMshorterSUPshortest
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
- Having little duration; opposite of long.
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- “Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".
- (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
- (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
- (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.).
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- He gave a short answer to the question.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- a short supply of provisions
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
- to be short of money
- The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- an account which is short of the truth
- OBS Not distant in time; near at hand.
- In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- AdverbCOMshorterSUPshortest
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
- He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
- The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.
- Unawares.
- The recent developments at work caught them short.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- His speech fell short of what was expected.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- We went short most finance companies in July.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Preposition
- Deficient in.
- We are short a few men on the second shift.
- He's short common sense.
- (finance) Having a negative position in.
- I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.
- Deficient in.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- From August to May, shorts or a light skirt are well worth having.
- The secondary resistant IB128 cell line was also characterized by an unbalanced pentaploidy of the short arm of chromosome 17 including the TP53 gene.
- The temperature at which the shortest postoviposition period occurred was estimated by the quadratic equation as 25.2°C [ …]
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Jones smashes a worm burner between third and short.
- As soon as he got home, Ryan stripped down to his t-shirt and shorts.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of short in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Prepositions
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "short" is an adjective. It's also an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a preposition. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.