• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
• the location on a baseball field where the Shortstop is stationed
• accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
• create a Short-circuit in
• cheat someone by not returning him enough money
• most direct; "took the Shortest and most direct route to town"
• quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
• primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "Short skirts"; "Short hair"; "the board was a foot Short"; "a Short toss"
• 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"
• of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively Short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat'', `pet'', `pit'', `pot'', putt'')
• not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a Short sale"; "Short in cotton"
• unwilling to endure; "she was Short with the slower students"
• lacking foresight or scope; "a Short view of the problem"; "Shortsighted policies"; "Shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
• (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a Short memory"
• used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
• 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"
• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives Short weight"
• low in stature; not tall; "his was Short and stocky"; "Short in stature"; "a Short smokestack"
• 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"
• quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
• 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"
• tightly; "she caught him up Short on his lapel"
• at a disadvantage; "I was caught Short"
• so as to interrupt; "She took him up Short before he could continue"
• at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell Short of our expectations"
• clean across; "the car''s axle snapped Short"
• without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling Short just before the crash"

'Short' in other languages