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Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb short Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb short Entailment of verb short Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb short 2 senses of short Sense 1 short-change, short => swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con Sense 2 short-circuit, short => make create Familiarity of verb short short used as a verb is rare (polysemy count = 2) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb short Sense 1 short-change, short => swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con -------------- Sense 2 short-circuit, short => make create -------------- Grep of noun short chuck short ribs german short-haired pointer short short's aster short-billed marsh wren short-horned grasshopper short-leaf pine short-spurred fragrant orchid short-stop short-stop bath short-tailed shrew short-term memory short-toed eagle short account short aria short bone short circuit short covering short division short gastric artery short hundredweight short iron short letter short line short list short order short pants short ribs short sale short saphenous vein short selling short shrift short sleep short sleeve short story short subject short temper short ton short wave short whist shortage shortbread shortbread cookie shortcake shortcoming shortcut shortener shortening shortfall shortfin mako shortgrass shorthand shorthand typist shorthorn shortia shortia galacifolia shortleaf pine shortleaf yellow pine shortness shortness of breath shorts shortsightedness shortstop shorttail weasel shortwave diathermy machine Overview of noun short The noun short has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) short -- (the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed) 2. short circuit, short -- (accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference) 3. shortstop, short -- (the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base) Overview of verb short The verb short has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. short-change, short -- (cheat someone by not returning him enough money) 2. short-circuit, short -- (create a short-circuit in) Overview of adj short The adj short has 15 senses (first 4 from tagged texts) 1. (43) short -- (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. (22) short -- (primarily spatial sense having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss") 3. (7) short -- (low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack") 4. (3) inadequate, poor, short -- (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") 5. short -- ((finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton") 6. short -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')) 7. short -- (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. light, scant, short -- (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight") 9. short -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration) 10. short -- ((of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory") 11. short, shortsighted, unforesightful -- (lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan") 12. short, unforbearing -- (unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students") 13. choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered -- (quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander") 14. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town") 15. brusque, brusk, curt, short -- (marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him") Overview of adv short The adv short has 8 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) abruptly, suddenly, short, dead -- (quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly") 2. short -- ((finance) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash") 3. short -- (clean across "the car's axle snapped short") 4. short -- (at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations") 5. short -- (so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue") 6. short, unawares -- (at a disadvantage; "I was caught short") 7. short -- (tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel") 8. curtly, short, shortly -- (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") Antonyms of adj short 15 senses of short Sense 1 short (vs. long) long (vs. short) => agelong => bimestrial => daylong => drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted => durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived => endless, eternal, interminable => hourlong => lifelong, womb-to-tomb => long-acting => long-dated => longish => longitudinal => long-range => long-run, long-term, semipermanent => longstanding => monthlong => nightlong, overnight => perennial => weeklong => yearlong Sense 2 short (vs. long) long (vs. short) => elongate, elongated => elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged => extendible, extendable => far => in length(prenominal) => lank => long-distance => longer, longest => long-handled => long-range => long-snouted => long-staple => oblong => polysyllabic, sesquipedalian => stretch(postnominal) => long-wool, long-wooled Sense 3 short (vs. tall) tall (vs. short) => full-length => gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy => in height(prenominal) => leggy, long-legged, long-shanked => leggy, tall-growing => long => stately, statuesque => tallish Sense 4 inadequate, poor, short INDIRECT (VIA insufficient) -> sufficient Sense 5 short (vs. long) long (vs. short) Sense 6 short (vs. long) long (vs. short) Sense 7 short INDIRECT (VIA tender) -> tough Sense 8 light, scant(prenominal), short INDIRECT (VIA insufficient) -> sufficient Sense 9 short INDIRECT (VIA unstressed) -> stressed Sense 10 short INDIRECT (VIA unretentive) -> retentive Sense 11 short, shortsighted, unforesightful INDIRECT (VIA improvident) -> provident Sense 12 short, unforbearing INDIRECT (VIA impatient) -> patient Sense 13 choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered INDIRECT (VIA ill-natured) -> good-natured Sense 14 short, shortest INDIRECT (VIA direct) -> indirect Sense 15 brusque, brusk, curt, short(prenominal) INDIRECT (VIA discourteous) -> courteous Similarity of adj short 15 senses of short Sense 1 short (vs. long) => abbreviated, shortened, truncated => brief, little => clipped => fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary => short-dated => short-range => short-run, short-term => telescoped, shortened => short and sweet(prenominal) Sense 2 short (vs. long) => abbreviated, brief => close => curtal => sawed-off, shortened => shortish => short-range => short-snouted => telescoped, shortened => snub => stubby => truncate, truncated Sense 3 short (vs. tall) => chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy => half-length => pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off => squab, squabby Also See-> small#1, little#1; low#2 Sense 4 inadequate, poor, short => insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient Sense 5 short (vs. long) Sense 6 short (vs. long) Sense 7 short => tender (vs. tough) Sense 8 light, scant(prenominal), short => insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient Sense 9 short => unstressed (vs. stressed), unaccented Sense 10 short => unretentive (vs. retentive), forgetful Sense 11 short, shortsighted, unforesightful => improvident (vs. provident) Sense 12 short, unforbearing => impatient (vs. patient) Sense 13 choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered => ill-natured (vs. good-natured) Sense 14 short, shortest => direct (vs. indirect) Sense 15 brusque, brusk, curt, short(prenominal) => discourteous (vs. courteous) Attributes of adj short 3 of 15 senses of short Sense 1 short (vs. long) => duration, length Sense 2 short (vs. long) => length Sense 3 short (vs. tall) => stature, height Familiarity of adj short short used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 15) Grep of adj short short short-dated short-handed short-handled short-headed short-lived short-order short-range short-run short-snouted short-staffed short-tempered short-term short-winded short-winged short and sweet shortened shortest shorthand shortish shortsighted Overview of noun short The noun short has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) short -- (the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed) 2. short circuit, short -- (accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference) 3. shortstop, short -- (the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base) Overview of verb short The verb short has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. short-change, short -- (cheat someone by not returning him enough money) 2. short-circuit, short -- (create a short-circuit in) Overview of adj short The adj short has 15 senses (first 4 from tagged texts) 1. (43) short -- (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. (22) short -- (primarily spatial sense having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss") 3. (7) short -- (low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack") 4. (3) inadequate, poor, short -- (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") 5. short -- ((finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton") 6. short -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')) 7. short -- (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. light, scant, short -- (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight") 9. short -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration) 10. short -- ((of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory") 11. short, shortsighted, unforesightful -- (lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan") 12. short, unforbearing -- (unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students") 13. choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered -- (quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander") 14. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town") 15. brusque, brusk, curt, short -- (marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him") Overview of adv short The adv short has 8 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) abruptly, suddenly, short, dead -- (quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly") 2. short -- ((finance) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash") 3. short -- (clean across "the car's axle snapped short") 4. short -- (at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations") 5. short -- (so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue") 6. short, unawares -- (at a disadvantage; "I was caught short") 7. short -- (tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel") 8. curtly, short, shortly -- (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")
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