SHORT — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
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The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base.
The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.
Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference.
Create a short-circuit in.
Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.
Most direct.
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- Took the shortest and most direct route to town.
Quickly aroused to anger.
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- A hotheaded commander.
Primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length.
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- Short skirts.
- Short hair.
- The board was a foot short.
- A short toss.
Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.
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- A short life.
- A short flight.
- A short holiday.
- A short story.
- Only a few short months.
Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in 'pat', 'pet', 'pit', 'pot', putt').
Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.
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- A short sale.
- Short in cotton.
Unwilling to endure.
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- She was short with the slower students.
Lacking foresight or scope.
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- A short view of the problem.
- Shortsighted policies.
- Shortsighted critics derided the plan.
- Myopic thinking.
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range.
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- A short memory.
Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration.
Not sufficient to meet a need.
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- An inadequate income.
- A poor salary.
- Money is short.
- On short rations.
- Food is in short supply.
- Short on experience.
Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
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- A light pound.
- A scant cup of sugar.
- Regularly gives short weight.
Low in stature; not tall.
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- His was short and stocky.
- Short in stature.
- A short smokestack.
Containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes.
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- Shortbread is a short crumbly cookie.
- A short flaky pie crust.
Quickly and without warning.
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- He stopped suddenly.
In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.
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- He told me curtly to get on with it.
- He talked short with everyone.
- He said shortly that he didn't like it.
Tightly.
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- She caught him up short on his lapel.
At a disadvantage.
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- I was caught short.
So as to interrupt.
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- She took him up short before he could continue.
At some point or distance before a goal is reached.
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- He fell short of our expectations.
Clean across.
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- The car's axle snapped short.
Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.
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- He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash.
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