Meaning

12 senses
  1. A short circuit.

    The circuit breaker keeps tripping because there's a short in the wiring.

  2. A short film.

  3. A short film.

    (Internet)A short-form vertical video.

  4. (Internet, broadly)A vertical video of any length.

    long short

  5. A short version of a garment in a particular size.

    38 short suits fit me right off the rack.

    Do you have that size in a short?

  6. A shortstop.

    Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.

    the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

  7. A short seller.

    The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.

  8. A short sale or short position.

    He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.

  9. A summary account.

  10. A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.

  11. An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

  12. (US, slang)An automobile.

    crack shorts

Examples

2494 sentences
  1. Make this sentence a little shorter.

    Зроби це речення трохи коротшим. — deniko

    ruСделайте это предложение немного короче. — fjay69

    deVerkürze diesen Satz ein bisschen. — MUIRIEL

  2. I am running short of money.

    У мене закінчуються гроші. — Squaw

  3. My sister is shorter than you.

    Моя сестра нижча за тебе. — aandrusiak

    ruМоя сестра ниже тебя. — shanghainese

    deMeine Schwester ist kleiner als du. — MUIRIEL

  4. He tried writing a short story.

    Він спробував написати коротке оповідання. — ascolto

    ruОн попытался написать короткий рассказ. — Lenin_1917

    deEr versuchte, eine Kurzgeschichte zu schreiben. — Wolf

  5. They are always short of money.

    Їм завжди бракує грошей. — aandrusiak

    ruИм всегда не хватает денег. — Hellerick

    deSie haben nie genug Geld. — Dani6187

Origin

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-We

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of shirt, skirt, and curt.

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Forms

plural: shorts
Singularshort
Pluralshorts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base:shortstop
  • accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference:short circuit

Collocations

12 patterns
  • take a short
  • bit shorter than
  • was too short
  • a bit shorter
  • lot shorter than
  • a short break
  • short of money
  • a short time
  • for a short
  • inches shorter than
  • running running short
  • is shorter than

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
short — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto