short (original) (raw)
short adjective (DISTANCE)
Her hair is much shorter than it used to be.
I'm fairly short but my brother's very tall.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- lowThe garden was surrounded by a low hedge.
- shortHe's much shorter than I thought.
- shallowStay in the shallow end of the pool, please.
- low-lyingLow-lying areas are prone to flooding.
- squatI wish they'd tear down that squat block of flats.
B2
used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of another name:
short for Her name's Jo - it's short for Josephine.
for short Her name's Josephine, or Jo for short.
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- Runners come in all shapes and sizes - fat and thin, short and tall.
- "I'm going to wear a short black skirt and thigh-length boots." "Ooh, you devil!"
- Like a lot of short men, he tends to draw himself up to his full height in public.
- It's not fashionable to wear short skirts at the moment.
- Many short rivers flow into the Pacific Ocean.
short adjective (LACKING)
be short (of/on something)
B1
to not have enough of something:
go short mainly UK
go short (of) My parents didn't have much money, but they made sure we didn't go short (of anything).
short adjective (NOT PATIENT)
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- quietShe's a quiet little thing.
- taciturnHer father was a shy, taciturn man.
- abruptHe is criticised for being too abrupt with his clients.
- curtShe was very curt with him.
- terseI don't appreciate how terse she is in meetings.
Grammar
Idioms
short noun (DRINK)
[ C ] UK informal (US shot)
short noun (FILM)
short noun (ELECTRICITY)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
short noun (BASEBALL)
Tommy will play short and bat third for us.
short verb (ELECTRICITY)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
short verb (TREAT UNFAIRLY)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
short verb (FINANCE)
Idiom
(Definition of short from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
short | American Dictionary
short adjective (LENGTH)
short adjective (TIME)
Mary Lou was here a short while ago.
short adjective (LACKING)
The bill comes to 85,butwe’re85, but we’re 85,butwe’re15 short.
Idioms
short adverb (LENGTH)
short adverb (TIME)
(Definition of short from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
short | Business English
for short Keep an eye on Canada's Northern Telecom, Nortel for short.
at short notice (US also on short notice)
go short on sth Speculators are going short on the Hong Kong dollar.
run short
if you run short of something, you have too little of it left:
if something runs short, there is little of it left:
Time is for a deal to get done.
As many as 27% of the company's shares have been shorted.
(Definition of short from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of short
short
Most of the agriculture practiced here is _short_-term rice and manioc followed by 4- 7 y of fallow.
Unfortunately, it is difficult in a short space to do justice to a book which already is a philosophical classic.
Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives short shrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
After a short pause the two stimuli were given in reversed positions, again 25 choices were recorded and correct choices rewarded.
Such studies have been very useful in mapping the cognitive architecture of human _short_-term memory to specific brain regions.
In short, there appear to be two possible ways of generalising beyond the findings reported here.
After five familiarization trials, five short and five long lines were presented in random sequence.
Supersonic ionization wave driven by radiation transport in a _short_-pulse laser-produced plasma.
Following their emission, positrons travel for a short distance that is defined by their energy and the surrounding tissue.
To replicate simultaneously individual pitches or short melodic patterns after an auditory stimulus involves fewer synthesis skills and requires less self-monitoring over time.
From even that short perspective, several things about bop had become clearer.
In short, early damage to the left (or right) hemisphere when there is normal plasticity tends to lead to recovery with no longlasting gross deficits.
In short, the age differences reside in the particulars of the environment and timing demands of the tasks.
Pitch-matching tasks require a child to echo individual pitches or short melodic patterns provided by an auditory stimulus.
Prototypes are also quite important in that they provide a frame of reference for linguistic quantifiers such as tall, short, old and so on.
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