Short
//ʃɔːt//
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The word "short" can be used as adjective, noun, adjective, adverb, verb, adverb, proper noun and preposition.
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Elliot's short-tailed shrew Korean-style short ribs Short Green Short Heath Short Hills Short money Shortstown a day late and a dollar short a few clowns short of a circus a few fries short of a Happy Meal a few spanners short of a tool box a fry short of a Happy Meal a short drop and a sudden stop at short notice at short sight bib short boy-short bring up short castle short caught short cold short cold-short come short come up short cut short down to the short strokes draw the short straw fall short few cards short of a full deck few sandwiches short of a picnic for short fry short of a Happy Meal go short gray short-tailed opossum greater short-toed lark have a short memory have someone by the short and curlies have someone by the short hairs hold short hot short hot-short in short in short order in short pants in short supply in short trousers in the short run in the short term let one's short back and sides down life is short life is too short life's too short long and short stitch long run for a short slide long storey short long story short make short work of make the road shorter nasty, brutish, and short odd-come-short odd-cum-short on short notice one brick short of a full load one card short of a full deck one fry short of a Happy Meal one short pull short pull short up pull up short red-short ride the short bus rule of the shorter term run short sell oneself short sell short short 20th century short QT syndrome short a short accounts make long friends short and short and curlies short and sweet short arm short back and sides short ballot short bit short black short block short bowel syndrome short break short bus short change short ciliary nerve short circuit short circuit operator short code short commons short con short corner short cross short cut short division short down short dozen short drink short drop short e short end short end of the stick short ess short exact sequence short eyes short fetched short file name short filename short finals short for short fuse short gross short hairs short hand short handed short haul short head short hop short hose short hundred short i short illative short king short leash short leg short line short list short loin short man syndrome short measure short message service short meter short notice short o short of short of a length short of breath short on looks short oo short order short out short pants short pass short passive short pastry short pay short payment short period comet short plate short pocosin short posterior ciliary artery short pull short queen short reckonings make long friends short rib short ribs short run short s short scale short sea short sell short sharp shock short sheet short short short short story short shorts short shrift short sight short six short sleeper short snorter short spar short squeeze short stack short stacked short stop short story short straddle short strokes short stuff short subject short sweetening short sword short tag short tandem repeat short temper short term short time short title short ton short track short twentieth century short u short view short vowel short wave short weight short whist short-acting short-answer short-arse short-ass short-billed dowitcher short-billed marsh wren short-chain short-change short-circuit short-circuit operator short-coat short-corner short-cut short-dated short-distance short-eared dog short-eared fox short-eared owl short-eared zorro short-faced bear short-faced kangaroo short-fall short-fetched short-finned eel short-haired short-haired bumblebee short-hand short-handed short-handedly short-handedness short-haul short-head seahorse short-horned grasshopper short-legged short-leggedness short-lined chocolate short-list short-lived short-livedness short-neck'd short-necked short-nosed unicornfish short-order short-order chef short-order cook short-paid short-pay short-period short-period comet short-range short-run short-sea shipping short-sell short-sheet short-ship short-short story short-sighted short-sightedly short-sightedness short-sleeper short-sleeved short-spoken short-staff short-staffed short-staffing short-stop short-tack short-tailed blue short-tailed chinchilla short-tailed fox short-tailed hawk short-tailed parrot short-tailed weasel short-tempered short-term short-term memory short-termer short-termism short-termist short-termness short-time short-timer short-toed eagle short-toed snake eagle short-toed treecreeper short-track short-track speed skating short-wave short-winded short-witted shortbread shortcake shortchange shorten shortfall shortgevity shorthand shortie shortline shortly shortness shortwave shorty step short stop short take a long walk off a short pier take a long walk on a short pier take someone up short taken short the long and short thick as two short planks three fries short of a Happy Meal three stops short of Dagenham time is short
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abruptly adjective batsman briefly brittle circuit close crumbly curtly electrical far film full goal height horizontal integer low negative ownership person requirement securities lending security sell short short circuit short sale short seller shortchange shortening shorts shortstop small small person sound syllable unawares variable vertical vowel
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abbreviated abbreviated abridged breakable breakable brief brief chunky clipped clipped close close compact curtal curtal deficient discourteous dumpy fleeting forgetful fugitive half length half-length heavyset heavyset improvident insufficient low low-set mindless momentaneous momentaneous momentary pint sized pint-size pint-sized runty sawed off sawed-off sawn-off short and sweet short and sweet short dated short range short snouted short stalked short term short-dated short-range short-run short-snouted short-stalked short-term shortened shortish shortish snub snub squab squabby squabby squat squatty squatty stocky stubby stubby stumpy telescoped telescoped thick thickset truncate truncated truncated unmindful
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