What is the meaning of short?

noun

• 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.
  • synonyms: short circuit
• The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base.
  • synonyms: shortstop

verb

• Cheat someone by not returning him enough money.
  • synonyms: short-change
• Create a short circuit in.
  • synonyms: short-circuit

adjective

• Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration.
  • usage: "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
• Primarily spatial sense. ( having little length or lacking in length)
  • usage: "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
• Low in stature; not tall.
  • usage: "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
  • synonyms: little
• Not sufficient to meet a need.
  • usage: "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
  • synonyms: inadequate, poor
• Of memory. ( deficient in retentiveness or range)
  • usage: "a short memory"
  • synonyms: unretentive, forgetful
• Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices.
  • usage: "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
• Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration.
  • usage: "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
• Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
  • usage: "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
  • synonyms: light, scant
• Lacking foresight or scope.
  • usage: "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
  • synonyms: shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
• Tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening.
  • usage: "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
• Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
  • usage: "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
  • synonyms: brusque, brusk, curt

adverb

• Quickly and without warning.
  • usage: "he stopped suddenly"
  • synonyms: abruptly, suddenly, dead
• Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold.
  • usage: "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
• Clean across.
  • usage: "the car's axle snapped short"
• At some point or distance before a goal is reached.
  • usage: "he fell short of our expectations"
• So as to interrupt.
  • usage: "She took him up short before he could continue"
• At a disadvantage.
  • usage: "I was caught short"
  • synonyms: unawares
• In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner.
  • usage: "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
  • synonyms: curtly, shortly