Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)shortthe location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed (n)short circuit, shortaccidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference (n)shortstop, shortthe fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base Verbs
Adjectives
(a)shortprimarily 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” (a)short(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length“short skirts”,
“short hair”,
“the board was a foot short”,
“a short toss” (a)short, littlelow in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal“he was short and stocky”,
“short in stature”,
“a short smokestack”,
“a little man” (s)inadequate, poor, short, jejuneof insufficient quantity to meet a need“an inadequate income”,
“a poor salary”,
“money is short”,
“on short rations”,
“food is in short supply”,
“short on experience”,
“the jejune diets of the very poor” (a)shortnot holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices“a short sale”,
“short in cotton” (a)shortof speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration“the English vowel sounds in ‘pat’, ‘pet’, ‘pit’, ‘pot’, ‘putt’ are short” (s)light, scant, shortless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so“a light pound”,
“a scant cup of sugar”,
“regularly gives short weight” (s)short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopiclacking foresight or scope“a short view of the problem”,
“shortsighted policies”,
“shortsighted critics derided the plan”,
“myopic thinking” (s)shorttending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening“shortbread is a short crumbly cookie”,
“a short flaky pie crust” (s)brusque, brusk, curt, shortmarked by rude or peremptory shortness“try to cultivate a less brusque manner”,
“a curt reply”,
“the salesgirl was very short with him” Adverbs
(r)shortclean across“the car's axle snapped short” (r)shortwithout possessing something at the time it is contractually sold“he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash” (r)shortat some point or distance before a goal is reached“he fell short of our expectations” (r)shortso as to interrupt“She took him up short before he could continue” (r)curtly, short, shortlyin 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”