shortness / ʃɔrt /

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shortness5 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

short·er, short·est.

  1. having little length; not long.
  2. having little height; not tall: a short man.
  3. extending or reaching only a little way: a short path.
adv. 副词 adverb
  1. abruptly or suddenly: to stop short.
  2. briefly; curtly.
  3. on the near side of an intended or particular point: The arrow landed short.
  4. 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
  1. something that is short.
  2. that which is deficient or lacking.
  3. 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.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to cause a short circuit in.
  2. to cheat by giving less than is expected or deserved; shortchange.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to short-circuit.

shortness 近义词

shortness

等同于 lack

shortness

等同于 smallness

shortness

等同于 impatience

shortness构成的短语

  • short and sweet
  • short end of the stick, the
  • short for
  • short haul
  • short notice, on
  • short of
  • short order
  • short run
  • short shrift, give
  • by the short hairs
  • caught short
  • cut short
  • fall short
  • for short
  • in brief (short)
  • in short order
  • in short supply
  • in the long (short) run
  • life is too short
  • long and short of it
  • long (short) haul
  • make a long story short
  • make short work of
  • nothing short of
  • run short
  • sell short
  • stop short

更多shortness例句

  1. In short, he moved closer to Pelosi’s position after a monthlong showdown.
  2. Antebellum, the film, has its roots in a short story the duo wrote in October 2017.
  3. When a QED calculation leads to an infinite sum, cut it short.
  4. Rapid short-term cooling following the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.
  5. For best results, cut a short section of FireCord and remove the red strand.
  6. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  7. The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
  8. In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.
  9. But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
  10. In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.
  11. Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
  12. Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
  13. He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
  14. They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
  15. And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.