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ShortShort Short, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE.
short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
t. Cf. Shirt.]
1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it. --Isa. xxviii.
20.
2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
protracted; as, short breath.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
--Chaucer.
To short absense I could yield. --Milton.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
money.
We shall be short in our provision. --Shak.
5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
trith.
6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence
should be so short. --Spenser.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
to be ready by a short day. --Clarendon.
7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than
the present. --Rowe.
8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
them again to war. --Landor.
9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
answer to the question.
10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
crisp; as, short pastry.
11. (Metal) Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
of the presence of phosphorus.
12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short,
under Short, adv.
Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
after being presented to the payer.
13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or
to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide
to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See
under Come, Cut, etc. ShortShort Short, n.
1. A summary account.
The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
--Shak.
2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
finer than the bran.
The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.
3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.
4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.
5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
longs in English, as in ``bit' and ``beat,'
``not' and ``naught,' we find that the short
vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides
being generally diphthongic as well. Hence,
originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet
kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H.
Sweet.
In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.
The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.
The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with
stocks which they contracted to deliver. Short
Short Short, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
To shorten. [Obs.]
Short
Short Short, v. i.
To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
Meaning of ShorTs from wikipedia
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Shorts are a
garment worn over the
pelvic area,
circling the
waist and
splitting to
cover the
upper part of the legs,
sometimes extending down to the knees...
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YouTube Shorts is the short-form
section of the
online video-sharing
platform YouTube.
YouTube Shorts are
vertical videos that are of less than 180 seconds...
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another 34
shorts with Sib
Tower 12
Productions between 1963 and 1967. Five more
shorts have been
produced since 2001,
making a
total of 166
shorts. A number...
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series of
animated shorts created by Mike Judge. They
aired on Sa****ay
Night Live in the mid-1990s and, like Judge's
other early shorts,
appeared on MTV's...
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golden age of
American animation.
Following a
revival in the late 1970s, new
shorts were
released as
recently as 2014. The two
series introduced a
large cast...
- The
Simpsons shorts are a
series of
animated short films that
aired as a
recurring segment on Fox
variety television series The
Tracey Ullman Show for...
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Timothy Neocartes "T. J."
Shorts II (born
October 15, 1997) is an American-born
naturalized Macedonian basketball player for
Paris Basketball of the French...
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producer Hal Roach, who also
produced the
Laurel and
Hardy films, Our Gang
shorts were
produced from 1922 to 1944,
spanning the
silent film and
early sound...
- with a Pixar-created
original short film,
known as a "short."
Other Pixar shorts,
released only on home media, were
created to
showcase Pixar's technology...
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Cargo shorts are a
shorts version of the
cargo pants, with the legs
usually extending down to near-knee lengths. Both
cargo pants and
shorts have since...
