Shortest can be categorized as an adjective.
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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" | ||
| 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" | ||
| short - low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" | ||
| short - of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" | ||
| short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" | ||
| short - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" | ||
| 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" | ||
| 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" | ||
| short - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" | ||
| 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" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. | |
| 2. | adj. | Take the shortest route to Paris. | |
| 3. | adj. | I wonder which way is the shortest. | |
| 4. | adj. | This is the shortest way to the station. | |
| 5. | adj. | As far as I know, he is the shortest student in this school. | |
| 6. | adj. | We took the shortest way to the station. | |
| 7. | adj. | Good company on the road is the shortest cut. | |
| 8. | adj. | Excuse me, what is the shortest way to go to the station? | |
| 9. | adj. | "This is the shortest way," the truck driver concluded. | |
| 10. | adj. | It's the shortest route to Paris. | |
| 11. | adj. | Hawaiian has the shortest alphabet: seventeen letters. | |
| 12. | adj. | Excuse me, what's the shortest route to the station? | |
| 13. | adj. | The shortest comments are often the most useful ones. | |
| 14. | adj. | Excuse me, which way to the station is the shortest? | |
| 15. | adj. | Between two words, we must choose the shortest one. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. | |
| Take the shortest route to Paris. | |
| I wonder which way is the shortest. | |
| This is the shortest way to the station. | |
| As far as I know, he is the shortest student in this school. | |
| We took the shortest way to the station. | |
| Good company on the road is the shortest cut. | |
| Excuse me, what is the shortest way to go to the station? | |
| "This is the shortest way," the truck driver concluded. | |
| It's the shortest route to Paris. | |
| Hawaiian has the shortest alphabet: seventeen letters. | |
| Excuse me, what's the shortest route to the station? | |
| The shortest comments are often the most useful ones. | |
| Excuse me, which way to the station is the shortest? | |
| Between two words, we must choose the shortest one. | |