short

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(noun): A short circuit.
(noun): A short film.
(noun): A short version of a garment in a particular size.
(noun): A shortstop.
(noun): A short seller.
(noun): A short sale.
(noun): A summary account.
(noun): A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
(noun): An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
(noun): An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
(verb): To cause a short circuit in (something).
(verb): Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
(verb): To shortchange.
(verb): To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(verb): To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
(verb): To shorten.
(adjective): Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
(adjective): (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
(adjective): Having little duration.
(adjective): (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(adjective): (of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
(adjective): (of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
(adjective): (of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
(adjective): (of pastries) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening.)
(adjective): Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
(adjective): Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
(adjective): Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
(adjective): Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
(adjective): Undiluted; neat.
(adjective): Not distant in time; near at hand.
(adjective): Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
(adverb): Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
(adverb): Unawares.
(adverb): Without achieving a goal or requirement.
(adverb): (of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
(adverb): With a negative ownership position.
(preposition): Deficient in.
(preposition): Having a negative position in.

38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us.

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long