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shortness

/shawrt/US // ʃɔrt //UK // (ʃɔːt) //

短小,短暂,短小精悍,短暂的

Related Words

precise准确,精确,准确的,精密short-lived昙花一现,昙花一现的,短暂的,寿命短的brief简介,简要,简短的,简短terse简练,简练的,简洁的,精练shortened缩短,缩短了,简化,缩短的abbreviated缩略语,缩略,缩写,简称small小,小型,小的,小型的thick浓密的,浓厚的,浓重的,浓密tiny微小的,微小,渺小,渺小的low低,低的,低位,低级poor穷人,贫穷,可怜的,穷limited有限的,有限,有限性shy羞涩,羞涩的,害羞,害羞的slim苗条,纤细的,纤细,苗条的slender纤细,纤细的,苗条,苗条的tight紧,紧密,严格,紧张sharp尖锐,犀利,尖锐的,锐利straight直,直接,笔直的,直的fragile脆弱的,娇嫩的,脆弱,纤弱的crisp清脆的,干脆利落的,干脆利落,爽快的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    short·er, short·est.

    • : having little length; not long.
    • : having little height; not tall: a short man.
    • : extending or reaching only a little way: a short path.
    • : brief in duration; not extensive in time:a short wait.
    • : brief or concise, as writing.
    • : rudely brief; abrupt; brusque: short behavior.
    • : low in amount; scanty: short rations.
    • : 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.
    • : deficient in tenacity; friable; brittle.
    • : of less than ordinary length from front to back.
    • : 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.
    • : small:a short drink.
    • : Chiefly British. undiluted; straight.
    • : Ceramics. not plastic enough to be modeled.
    • : Ropemaking. hard.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : abruptly or suddenly: to stop short.
    • : briefly; curtly.
    • : 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
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : 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.
    • : Electricity. short circuit.
    • : Prosody. a short sound or syllable.
    • : Baseball. shortstop.
    • : Movies. short subject.
    • : Finance. short seller.
    • : a deficiency or the amount of a deficiency.
    • : Chiefly British. a small drink of straight whiskey; shot.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause a short circuit in.
    • : to cheat by giving less than is expected or deserved; shortchange.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to short-circuit.

Phrases

  • 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

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlack
Synonyms
absence没有,缺席,缺少,不存在dearth匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够loss损失,亏损,损耗,丧失paucity贫乏,少数,少量,少量的poverty贫困,贫穷,贫困问题,穷困reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低scarcity稀缺性,稀缺,匮乏,稀少shortage缺少,短缺,不足,不足之处shortcoming缺点,缺陷,短处,短缺shortfall差额,短缺,缺少,缺口abridgement删节,缩略语,节略,删减curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌default违约,默认的,违约金,默认defect缺陷,瑕疵,叛逃,叛逃事件deficit亏损,亏欠,亏空,赤字depletion耗损,枯竭,损耗,消耗deprivation匮乏,剥夺,褫夺,贫困destitution赤贫,穷困潦倒,穷困,贫穷distress苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰exigency迫切性,紧迫性,迫切需求,危急情况exiguity灵活性,确切性,复杂性,确切地说inferiority自卑,自卑感,自卑心理,尊卑insufficiency不足,不充分,不够用,不充足meagerness渴望,温柔,我的心态,我的心miss错过了,错过,怀念,错过的necessity必要性,必需品,必然性,必要privation匮乏,隐私,私有化,匮乏性retrenchment缩减,裁员,缩减开支,缩水scantiness稀少,匮乏,稀缺性,稀少性shrinkage缩水,缩减,缩水率,萎缩shrinking缩减,缩水,萎缩,收缩slightness轻微,微不足道,轻微的,轻视stint吝啬鬼,吝惜,吝啬的,吝啬的人want想,要,想要,希望insufficience不足,不够用,不充分,不够
as insmallness
Synonyms
narrowness狭隘性,狭小,狭隘,狭长brevity简明扼要,简洁性,简洁,简短性diminutiveness矮化,缩水,缩水症,缩微minuteness细微之处,精细,细微处,细部petiteness娇气,娇小,娇嫩,小巧scantiness稀少,匮乏,稀缺性,稀少性slightness轻微,微不足道,轻微的,轻视tininess小型化,小巧玲珑,小型,小巧atomity原子体,原子量,原子力,原子能dinkiness小费,愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的infinitesimalness无限小,无限大,极小,无限极small size小尺寸,尺寸小,小型,体积小smallishness小型化,小气,小国寡民,狭隘
as inimpatience
Synonyms
anger愤怒,怒气,怒,愤慨annoyance烦扰,烦心事,烦恼,烦人anxiety焦虑,忧虑,焦虑不安,担忧eagerness殷切期望,渴望,殷勤,急切盼望edginess边缘性,边缘化,边缘化程度,边缘地带excitement兴奋,兴奋点,激动,激动的心情nervousness紧张,忐忑不安,紧张情绪,紧张感restlessness烦躁不安,躁动不安,躁动,烦躁uneasiness不安,不舒服,不安感,不安的感觉agitation躁动,扰动,搅拌,搅拌器avidity热心,狂热,热忱,渴望disquietude忐忑不安,忧虑,不安,烦躁expectancy期望值,期待值,预期寿命,预期fretfulness烦躁不安,焦躁不安,烦躁,浮躁haste匆忙,匆匆忙忙,匆匆,勷勤hastiness匆忙,仓促,匆匆忙忙,匆忙行事heat热度,热力,热,热量impetuosity冲动,冲动性,浮躁,浮躁性intolerance不容忍,不宽容,不容忍现象,不容忍问题irritability易怒,暴躁不安,暴躁,易怒症rashness轻率,轻率性,冒失,冒失鬼restiveness静止性,安息性,休息,安宁suspense悬念,悬疑,悬疑片,悬赏vehemence激烈程度,猛烈抨击,喧嚣,愤怒violence暴力,暴力事件,暴力问题,暴力犯罪ants in pants裤子里的蚂蚁,裤裆里的蚂蚁,裤衩里的蚂蚁,裤裆的蚂蚁irritableness易怒,烦躁,暴躁,烦躁不安quick temper脾气急躁,脾气快,脾气急,脾气大snappiness爽快,爽快感,爽性,爽快的

Examples

  • In short, he moved closer to Pelosi’s position after a monthlong showdown.

  • Antebellum, the film, has its roots in a short story the duo wrote in October 2017.

  • When a QED calculation leads to an infinite sum, cut it short.

  • Rapid short-term cooling following the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.

  • For best results, cut a short section of FireCord and remove the red strand.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

  • In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

  • But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.

  • In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.

  • Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

  • Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.

  • 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.

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