not reaching a point, mark, target, or the like; not long enough or far enough.
below the standard in extent, quantity, duration, etc.: short measure.
having a scanty or insufficient amount of: He was short in experience.
being below a necessary or desired level; lacking: The office is short due to winter colds and flu.
Cooking. crisp and flaky; breaking or crumbling readily from being made with a large proportion of butter or other shortening. containing a relatively large amount of shortening.
Stock Exchange. not possessing at the time of sale commodities or stocks that one sells.noting or pertaining to a sale of commodities or stocks that the seller does not possess, depending for profit on a decline in prices.
Phonetics. lasting a relatively short time: “Bit” has a shorter vowel-sound than “bid” or “bead.”belonging to a class of sounds considered as usually shorter in duration than another class, as the vowel of but as compared to that of bought, and in many languages serving as a distinctive feature of phonemes, as the a in German Bann in contrast with the ah in Bahn, or the t in Italian fato in contrast with the tt in fatto.having the sound of the English vowels in bat, bet, bit, hot, but, and put, historically descended from vowels that were short in duration.
Prosody. lasting a relatively shorter time than a long syllable.unstressed.
on the near side of an intended or particular point: The arrow landed short.
Baseball. with the hands higher on the handle of the bat than usual: He held the bat short and flied out.in a fielding position closer to home plate than usual.
n. 名词 noun
something that is short.
that which is deficient or lacking.
Usually the short . the sum and substance of a matter; gist: Here's the short of it: they broke up two weeks before the wedding.See also long.
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shorts, trousers, knee-length or shorter.short pants worn by men as an undergarment.knee breeches, formerly worn by men.Finance.short-term bonds.Mining.crushed ore failing to pass through a given screen, thus being of a larger given size than a specific grade.Compare fine. remnants, discards, or refuse of various cutting and manufacturing processes.
a size of garment for men who are shorter than average: He wears a 42 short.
a garment, as a suit or overcoat, in such a size.
Military. a shot that strikes or bursts short of the target.