short

1. short (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

2. short (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.

Example: Nhung Ngo had the shortest legs at Site-43. She was the shortest member of staff, two inches beneath the positively elfin Delfina Ibanez, and yet Lillian found her inexplicably difficult to shake. Power-walking down the halls didn't do the trick, as it always did when Wettle-dodging, since the diminutive headshrink kept disappearing into commissaries or service corridors or even other people's offices and emerging, smiling, in front of her.

3. short (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Having little duration.

Example: Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.

Concept: Афоризм

Polarities of the concept

4. short (adv) — sense 4

Definition: Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

Example: They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.

5. short (adv) — sense 5

Definition: Unawares.

Example: The recent developments at work caught them short.

6. short (adv) — sense 6

Definition: Without achieving a goal or requirement.

Example: His speech fell short of what was expected.

7. short (noun) — sense 7

Definition: A short circuit.

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

8. short (noun) — sense 8

Definition: A short film.

Example: Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

9. short (noun) — sense 9

Definition: A short film.: A short-form vertical video.

10. short (verb) — sense 10

Definition: To cause a short circuit in (something).

Example: You should short the poles of the capacitor to discharge it before you work on it.

11. short (verb) — sense 11

Definition: To short circuit.

12. short (verb) — sense 12

Definition: To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.

Example: This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.

13. short (prep) — sense 13

Definition: Deficient in.

Example: We are short a few men on the second shift.

14. short (prep) — sense 14

Definition: Having a negative position in.

Example: I don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend.