Definition of shorter Shorter
/ʃɔˈɹtɚ/ - [shorter] -
We found 3 definitions of shorter from 2 different sources.
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What does shorter mean?
Wiktionary 
- shorter (Noun)
A short, a short seller : one who engages in short selling .
Part of speech
🔤- shorter, adjective, comparative of short.
WordNet
NounPlural: shorts |
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| short - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | ||
| parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, parcel, tract the allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" | ||
| short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | ||
| short circuit | ||
| tangency, contact the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing | ||
| electric circuit, electrical circuit, circuit an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | ||
| short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | ||
| shortstop | ||
| position the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | ||
Adjectiveshort, shorter, shortest |
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| short - (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" | ||
| long having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply" | ||
| length a section of something that is long and narrow; "a length of timber"; "a length of tubing" | ||
| abbreviated, brief (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini" | ||
| close marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts" | ||
| curtal (obsolete) cut short; "a dog with a curtal tail" | ||
| sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" | ||
| shortish somewhat short | ||
| short-range limited to short distances; "short-range planes"; "a short-range shot" | ||
| short-snouted having a snout that is shorter than average | ||
| snub unusually short; "a snub nose" | ||
| stubby short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil" | ||
| telescoped, shortened shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" | ||
| short - 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" | ||
| long having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply" | ||
| duration, length continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" | ||
| abbreviated, truncated, shortened (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini" | ||
| brief concise and succinct; "covered the matter in a brief statement" | ||
| clipped (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent" | ||
| fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" | ||
| short and sweet dealt with very quickly; to the point; "the conference was short and sweet"; "make your statement short and sweet" | ||
| short-dated of a gilt-edged security; having less than 5 years to run before redemption | ||
| short-range limited to short distances; "short-range planes"; "a short-range shot" | ||
| short - low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" | ||
| little | ||
| tall impressively difficult; "a tall order" | ||
| low literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" | ||
| stature, height (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | ||
| squatty, stumpy, chunky, low-set, squat, dumpy like or containing small sticky lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough" | ||
| heavyset, stocky, thickset, compact, thick planted or growing close together; "thickset trees" | ||
| half-length abridged to half its original length | ||
| pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off well below average height | ||
| short-stalked of plants having relatively short stalks | ||
| short - of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" | ||
| phonetics the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | ||
| short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" | ||
| finance the commercial activity of providing funds and capital | ||
| short - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" | ||
| shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic | ||
| improvident not provident; not providing for the future | ||
| short - tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" | ||
| short - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" | ||
| unretentive, forgetful | ||
| unmindful, forgetful, mindless not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw | ||
| short - 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" | ||
| inadequate, poor | ||
| insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" | ||
| short - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" | ||
| brusque, brusk, curt | ||
| discourteous showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young" | ||
| short - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" | ||
| light, scant | ||
| insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" | ||
Adverb |
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| short - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" | ||
| short - at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" | ||
| unawares | ||
| short - so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue" | ||
| short - at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations" | ||
| short - clean across; "the car's axle snapped short" | ||
| short - 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" | ||
| curtly, shortly | ||
| short - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" | ||
| abruptly, suddenly, dead | ||
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Wiktionary
- short (Noun)
A short circuit . - short (Noun)
A short film. - short (Noun)
Shortstop. - short (Noun)
A short seller . - short (Noun)
A short sale . - short (Verb)
To cause a short short circuit in something. - short (Verb)
Of an electrical circuit, to short short circuit . - short (Verb)
To shortchange. - short (Verb)
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. - short (Verb)
To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short. - short (Verb)
To shorten. - short (Adverb)
Abruptly. - short (Adverb)
Unawares. - short (Adverb)
Briefly. - short (Adverb)
Curtly. - short (Adverb)
Without achieving a goal or requirement. - short (Adverb)
Of a cricket ball , to bounce relatively far from the batsman so that it bounces higher than normal; opposite of full. - short (Adverb)
With a negative ownership position. - short (Adjective)
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically. - short (Adjective)
Of comparatively little height. - short (Adjective)
Having little duration; opposite of long. - short (Adjective)
Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation for another or shortened form of another. - short (Adjective)
That bounced relatively far from the batsman. - short (Adjective)
Relatively close to the batsman. - short (Adjective)
brittle of pastry; see also shortening, shortcrust. - short (Adjective)
missing, deficient. - short (Adjective)
Any financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- short (superl.)
Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. - short (superl.)
Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. - short (superl.)
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. - short (superl.)
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. - short (superl.)
Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. - short (superl.)
Not distant in time; near at hand. - short (superl.)
Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. - short (superl.)
Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. - short (superl.)
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. - short (superl.)
Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. - short (superl.)
Brittle. - short (superl.)
Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv. - short (adv.)
Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30. - short (n.)
A summary account. - short (n.)
The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. - short (n.)
Short, inferior hemp. - short (n.)
Breeches; shortclothes. - short (n.)
A short sound, syllable, or vowel. - short (adv.)
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. - short (v. t.)
To shorten. - short (v. i.)
To fail; to decrease.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Small in length by comparison. -
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An unintentional electrical connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuitry or installation. -
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Short in height; low in stature; not tall. -
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Lasting for a small length of time; limited in temporal duration. -
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Not reaching a standard; Not sufficient to meet a need or requirement. -
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A quantity, time, number, etc. that is less than what is expressed. -
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Traveling not as far as intended. -
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Having an insufficient supply of. -
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Having sold a borrowed stock which the seller hopes to buy at a lower price before the time to return it. -
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To cause a short circuit. -
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To sell something that is borrowed, with the hope of buying it later at a lower price, before the time to return it. -
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To cheat someone by giving them less money than what are due. -
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Something short, like a short film, short shot, a short story, a short signal, etc. -
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A contraction for a name.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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short, adj. (comp. Short′er, superl. Short′est) not long in time or space: not tall: near at hand, early in date: scanty, lacking, insufficient: in error, deficient in wisdom, grasp, memory, &c.: narrow: abrupt, curt, sharp, uncivil: brittle, crumbling away readily: not prolonged in utterance, unaccented: (coll.) undiluted with water, neat: falling below a certain standard (with of): of stocks, &c., not having in possession when selling, not able to meet one's engagements, pertaining to short stocks or to those who have sold short.—adv. not long.—n. a summary account: a short time or syllable: whatever is deficient in number, quantity, &c.: a short sale, one who has made such: (pl.) small clothes, knee-breeches: the bran and coarse part of meal, in mixture.—ns. Short′age, deficiency; Short′-allow′ance, less than the regular allowance; Short′-and, the character '&,' the ampersand.—adj. Short′-armed, having short arms, not reaching far.—ns. Short′-bill, one having less than ten days to run; Short′-cake, a rich tea-cake made short and crisp with butter or lard and baked—also Short′-bread (Scot.): (U.S.) a light cake, prepared in layers with fruit between, served with cream; Short′-cir′cuit (electr.), a path of comparatively low resistance between two points of a circuit.—n.pl. Short′-clothes, small clothes, the dress of young children after the first long clothes.—v.t. Short′-coat, to dress in short-coats.—n.pl. Short′-coats, the shortened skirts of a child when the first long clothes are left off.—n. Short′coming, act of coming or falling short of produce or result: neglect of, or failure in, duty.—n.pl. Short′-comm′ons (see Common).—n. Short′-cross, the short cross-bar of a printer's chase.—adjs. Short′-cut, cut short instead of in long shreds—of tobacco, &c.—also n.; Short′-dāt′ed, having short or little time to run from its date, as a bill.—n. Short′-divi′sion, a method of division with a divisor not larger than 12—opp. to Long-division.—v.t. Short′en, to make short: to deprive: to make friable.—v.i. to become short or shorter: to contract.—n. Short′-gown, a loose jacket with a skirt, worn by women, a bed-gown.—adj. Short′-grassed (Shak.), provided or covered with short grass.—n. Short′hand, an art by which writing is made shorter and easier, so as to keep pace with speaking.—adj. Short′-hand′ed, not having the proper number of servants, work-people, &c.—ns. Short′hander, a stenographer; Short′-horn, one of a breed of cattle having very short horns—Durham and Teeswater.—adj. Short′-horned.—n. Short′-hose, the stockings of the Highland dress, reaching to the knee, as opposed to the long hose formerly worn by Englishmen.—adjs. Short′-joint′ed, short between the joints: having a short pastern; Short′-legged (Shak.), having short legs; Short′-lived, living or lasting only for a short time.—adv. Short′ly, in a short time: in a brief manner: quickly: soon.—ns. Short′-mē′tre (see Metre); Short′ness; Short′-pull, a light impression on a hand-press; Short′-rib, one of the lower ribs, not reaching to the breast-bone, a false or floating rib.—adj. Short′-sight′ed, having sight extending but a short distance: unable to see far: of weak intellect: heedless.—adv. Short′-sight′edly.—n. Short′-sight′edness.—adjs. Short′-spō′ken, sharp and curt in speech; Short′-stā′ple, having the fibre short.—n. Short′-stop, the player at base-ball between the second and third base.—adjs. Short′-tem′pered, easily put into a rage; Short′-wind′ed, affected with shortness of wind or breath; Short′-wit′ted, having little wit, judgment, or intellect.—At short sight, meaning that a bill is payable soon after being presented; Be taken short (coll.), to be suddenly seized with a desire to evacuate fæces; Come, Cut, Fall, short (see Come, Cut, Fall); In short, in a few words; Make short work of, to settle some difficulty or opposition promptly; Take up short, to check or to answer curtly; The long and short, the whole. [A.S. sceort; Old High Ger. scurz; the Dut. and Sw. kort, Ger. kurz, are borrowed from L. curtus.]
