short
     adj 1: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to
            be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short
            flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a
            few short months" [ant: {long}]
     2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
        length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
        foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: {long}]
     3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
        in stature"; "a short smokestack" [ant: {tall}]
     4: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
        poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
        is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: {inadequate},
         {poor}]
     5: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
        expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
        cotton" [ant: {long}]
     6: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short
        duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat',
        `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') [ant: {long}]
     7: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender
        and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a
        short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
     8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
        deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
        "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}]
     9: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief
        duration
     10: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
         memory"
     11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
         "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
         the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: {shortsighted}, {unforesightful},
          {myopic}]
     12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
         students" [syn: {unforbearing}]
     13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric},
          {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered},
          {short-tempered}]
     14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
         town" [syn: {shortest}]
     15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
         less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
         very short with him" [syn: {brusque}, {brusk}, {curt}, {short(p)}]
     n 1: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is
          stationed
     2: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit
        that have a potential difference [syn: {short circuit}]
     3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
        is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base [syn: {shortstop}]
     adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly},
             {suddenly}, {dead}]
     2: without possessing something at the time it is contractually
        sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before
        the crash"
     3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
     4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
        short of our expectations"
     5: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could
        continue"
     6: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: {unawares}]
     7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
     8: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me
        curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with
        everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn:
        {curtly}, {shortly}]
     v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: {short-change}]
     2: create a short-circuit in [syn: {short-circuit}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0