Meaning : The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.
Meaning : Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.
Synonyms : short circuit
Meaning : The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base.
Synonyms : shortstop
Meaning : Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.
Synonyms : short-change
Meaning : Create a short circuit in.
Synonyms : short-circuit
Meaning : Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.
Example :
He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash.
Meaning : Clean across.
Example :
The car's axle snapped short.
Meaning : At some point or distance before a goal is reached.
Example :
He fell short of our expectations.
Meaning : So as to interrupt.
Example :
She took him up short before he could continue.
Meaning : Primarily temporal sense. Indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.
Example :
A short life.
A short flight.
A short holiday.
A short story.
Only a few short months.
Primarily temporal sense. Being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.
A long life.Meaning : (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length.
Example :
Short skirts.
Short hair.
The board was a foot short.
A short toss.
Primarily spatial sense. Of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.
A long road.Meaning : Of insufficient quantity to meet a need.
Example :
An inadequate income.
A poor salary.
Money is short.
On short rations.
Food is in short supply.
Short on experience.
The jejune diets of the very poor.
Synonyms : inadequate, jejune, poor
Meaning : (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.
Example :
A short memory.
Synonyms : forgetful, unretentive
Meaning : Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.
Example :
A short sale.
Short in cotton.
Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices.
Is long on coffee.Meaning : Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration.
Example :
The English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short.
(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration.
The English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long.Meaning : Lacking foresight or scope.
Example :
A short view of the problem.
Shortsighted policies.
Shortsighted critics derided the plan.
Myopic thinking.
Synonyms : myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful
Meaning : Tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening.
Example :
Shortbread is a short crumbly cookie.
A short flaky pie crust.