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tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
e.g. shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
e.g. a short flaky pie crust
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(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
e.g. short skirts
e.g. short hair
e.g. the board was a foot short
e.g. a short toss
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primarily temporal sense
indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
e.g. a short life
e.g. a short flight
e.g. a short holiday
e.g. a short story
e.g. only a few short months
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of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short
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not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
e.g. a short sale
e.g. short in cotton
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lacking foresight or scope
e.g. a short view of the problem
e.g. shortsighted policies
e.g. shortsighted critics derided the plan
e.g. myopic thinking
Synonym: shortsighted unforesightful myopic
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(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
e.g. a short memory
Synonym: unretentive forgetful
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not sufficient to meet a need
e.g. an inadequate income
e.g. a poor salary
e.g. money is short
e.g. on short rations
e.g. food is in short supply
e.g. short on experience
Synonym: inadequate poor
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less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
e.g. a light pound
e.g. a scant cup of sugar
e.g. regularly gives short weight
Synonym: light scant(p)
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low in stature
not tall
e.g. he was short and stocky
e.g. short in stature
e.g. a short smokestack
e.g. a little man
Synonym: little
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quickly and without warning
e.g. he stopped suddenly
Synonym: abruptly suddenly dead
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in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
e.g. he told me curtly to get on with it
e.g. he talked short with everyone
e.g. he said shortly that he didn't like it
Synonym: curtly shortly
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at a disadvantage
e.g. I was caught short
Synonym: unawares
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so as to interrupt
e.g. She took him up short before he could continue
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at some point or distance before a goal is reached
e.g. he fell short of our expectations
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clean across
e.g. the car's axle snapped short
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without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
e.g. he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
英语释义
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n. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
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a. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
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a. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
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a. low in stature; not tall