3 days ago · The adjective short describes things that aren't long when you measure them, or have a small distance from one end to another, like your short hair or the short walk to the library.

SHORT meaning: 1 : extending a small distance from one end to the other end having little length not long; 2 : not great in distance

: being the member of a pair of similarly spelled vowel or vowel-containing sounds that is descended from a vowel that was short in duration but is no longer so and that does not …

SHORT definition: having little length; not long. See examples of short used in a sentence.

If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long. The announcement was made a short time ago. Kemp gave a short laugh.

As the second element in compounds forming adjectives with the sense ‘not having an adequate amount of the thing specified by the first element’, as in cash-short, fuel-short, water-short, etc.

1. Abruptly; quickly: stop short. 2. In a rude or curt manner. 3. At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal: a missile that landed short of the target. 4. At a disadvantage: We were caught …

SHORT definition: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. Learn more.

Short, brief are opposed to long, and indicate slight extent or duration. Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations: a short journey.

1 day ago · (having a small distance between ends or edges): Short is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is shallow in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal …