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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short \Short\, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE.
     short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
     skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
     t. Cf. {Shirt}.]
     1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
        short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.


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              The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
              himself on it.                        --Isa. xxviii.
                                                    20.
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     2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
        protracted; as, short breath.
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              The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              To short absense I could yield.       --Milton.
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     3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
        a short supply of provisions, or of water.
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     4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
        furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
        ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
        money.
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              We shall be short in our provision.   --Shak.
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     5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
        measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
        trith.
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     6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
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              Marinell was sore offended
              That his departure thence should be so short.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
              to be ready by a short day.           --Clarendon.
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     7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
        narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
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              Their own short understandings reach
              No farther than the present.          --Rowe.
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     8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
        equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
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              Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
              them again to war.                    --Landor.
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     9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
        answer to the question.
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     10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
         crisp; as, short pastry.
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     11. (Metal) Brittle.
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     Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
           as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
           of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
           cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
           of the presence of phosphorus.
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     12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
         not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
         See The shorts, under {Short}, n., and To sell short,
         under {Short}, adv.
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     Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
           made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
           after being presented to the payer.
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     13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
         utterance; -- opposed to {long}, and applied to vowels or
         to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
         letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
         same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
         i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
         short sound of a in pate, etc. See {Quantity}, and Guide
         to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
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     Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
           self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
           short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
           short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
           short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
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     {At short notice}, in a brief time; promptly.
  
     {Short rib} (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
  
     {Short suit} (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
        less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
  
     {To come short}, {To cut short}, {To fall short}, etc. See
        under {Come}, {Cut}, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short \Short\, adv.
     In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
     to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
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           He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
           such presumptuous language.              --Howell.
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     {To sell short} (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future
        delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes
        to buy at a lower rate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short \Short\, n.
     1. A summary account.
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              The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
        finer than the bran.
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              The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.
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     3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.
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     4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.
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     5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
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              If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
              longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and
              "naught," we find that the short vowels are
              generally wide, the long narrow, besides being
              generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally
              short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite
              distinct from the original longs.     --H. Sweet.
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     {In short}, in few words; in brief; briefly.
  
     {The long and the short}, the whole; a brief summing up.
  
     {The shorts} (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with
        stocks which they contracted to deliver.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
     To shorten. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Short \Short\, v. i.
     To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  short
       adj 1: 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" [ant: {long}]
       2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
          length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
          foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: {long}]
       3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
          in stature"; "a short smokestack" [ant: {tall}]
       4: 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" [syn: {inadequate},
           {poor}]
       5: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
          expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
          cotton" [ant: {long}]
       6: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short
          duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat',
          `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') [ant: {long}]
       7: 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"
       8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
          deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
          "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}]
       9: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief
          duration
       10: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
           memory"
       11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
           "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
           the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: {shortsighted}, {unforesightful},
            {myopic}]
       12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
           students" [syn: {unforbearing}]
       13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric},
            {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered},
            {short-tempered}]
       14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
           town" [syn: {shortest}]
       15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
           less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
           very short with him" [syn: {brusque}, {brusk}, {curt}, {short(p)}]
       n 1: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is
            stationed
       2: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit
          that have a potential difference [syn: {short circuit}]
       3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
          is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base [syn: {shortstop}]
       adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly},
               {suddenly}, {dead}]
       2: without possessing something at the time it is contractually
          sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before
          the crash"
       3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
       4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
          short of our expectations"
       5: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could
          continue"
       6: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: {unawares}]
       7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
       8: 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" [syn:
          {curtly}, {shortly}]
       v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: {short-change}]
       2: create a short-circuit in [syn: {short-circuit}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  437 Moby Thesaurus words for "short":
     3-D, Bermuda shorts, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Spartan, Technicolor,
     Western, aback, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt,
     abruptly, adulterated, aggressive, all in all, amount, amplify,
     animated cartoon, apart from, aposiopestic, arrested, badly off,
     bankrupt in, bare of, barring, bear, bear account, bearish,
     beastly, before, bereft of, black-and-white film, blemished, bluff,
     blunt, brash, break, break in on, brief, briefly, brisk,
     broken circuit, brusque, burden, butt in, callow, cartoon,
     cavalier, charge, chiller, chunky, churlish, cinema, circuit,
     circuital field, clipped, close, close-tongued, closed circuit,
     closemouthed, color film, cometary, compact, compendious,
     complete circuit, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, core,
     couchant, cramped, creepie, crisp, crouched, crusty, cursory, curt,
     curtail, curtailed, curtal, curtate, cut, cut off, cut short,
     damaged, dead circuit, debased, decreased, decurtate, defective,
     deficient, denuded of, depressed, deprived of, depthless,
     destitute of, devoid of, diminished, diminutive, dinky, direct,
     discourteous, distressed, docked, documentary, documentary film,
     down to bedrock, dumb, dumpy, dwarfish, economical of words,
     educational film, electrify, elfin, elliptic, embarrassed,
     embryonic, empty of, energize, epigrammatic, erroneous, except for,
     excepting, excluding, exclusive of, exiguous, fail, failing,
     fallible, faulty, feature, feeling the pinch, few, film, flashing,
     flat, fleet, flick, flicker, flickering, footling, for want of,
     forlorn of, forthwith, found wanting, galvanic circuit, galvanize,
     generate, gist, gnomic, gruff, half-pint, hard up, harsh, hastily,
     horror picture, horse opera, hot circuit, hot pants, hurriedly,
     hypoplastic, ill off, immature, impaired, impecunious, imperfect,
     impolite, imprecise, impure, in Queer Street, in a nutshell,
     in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of,
     in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in short,
     in short supply, in straitened circumstances, in want of,
     inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconsequential,
     inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indisposed to talk, inexact, infant,
     inferior, insignificant, instantaneous, instantly, insufficient,
     interrupt, irascible, knee-high, knocked flat, lacking, laconic,
     laid low, land-poor, lateral circuit, leaving out, leg, lessened,
     limited, little, live circuit, loop, loop in, low, low-built,
     low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured,
     magnetic circuit, makeshift, meager, meat, mediocre, meteoric,
     microcircuit, midget, miniature, minus, minuscule, missing, mixed,
     momentary, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie,
     moving picture, multiple circuit, multiple series, mum, mute,
     narrow, neap, needing, negligible, newsreel, no great shakes,
     not perfect, nudie, off, offhand, on the edge, one-horse, out of,
     out of pocket, part, partial, patchy, path, penniless,
     peremptorily, petite, petty, photodrama, photoplay, picayune,
     picayunish, picture, picture show, piddling, pinched, pindling,
     pint-sized, pith, pithy, plug in, pocket, pointed, poky, poor,
     poorly off, pornographic film, precluding, preview,
     printed circuit, prone, pruned, puny, purport, quick, quiet, rare,
     recumbent, reduced, reserved, rough, runty, scant, scant of,
     scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, sententious, series multiple,
     setting aside, severe, shallow, sharp, shock, short account,
     short and sweet, short circuit, short interest, short of,
     short of funds, short of money, short seller, short side,
     short-circuit, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, shorten,
     shortened, shorts, shy, shy of, silent, silent film, sketchy,
     skimp, skimpy, skin flick, skin-deep, slender, slight, small,
     smallish, snappish, sneak preview, snippety, snippy, snug,
     spaghetti Western, sparing of words, sparse, speechless, speedy,
     squat, squatty, squeezed, step down, step up, stiffen, stint,
     stooped, stop, straight, straightforward, straitened, strapped,
     stubby, stumpy, stunted, succinct, sudden, suddenly, summary,
     superficial, supine, surly, swift, switch off, switch on,
     synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, talkie, talking picture, temporary,
     terminate, terse, testy, thick, thickset, thriller, thrust, tight,
     tight-lipped, tiny, to the point, tongue-tied, trailer, transient,
     transitory, trifling, trim, trivial, truculent, truncated,
     turn off, turn on, two-by-four, unanticipatedly, unaware,
     unblessed with, uncivil, underdeveloped, underground film,
     undeveloped, unelevated, uneven, unexpectedly, unfinished,
     ungracious, unloquacious, unmoneyed, unperfected, unpossessed of,
     unprosperous, unreached, unsound, untalkative, unthorough, upshot,
     vector field, vest-pocket, void of, wanting, wee, without warning,
     word-bound, wordless
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Short, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    328
     Housing Units (2000): 143
     Land area (2000):     23.781084 sq. miles (61.592721 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.059329 sq. miles (0.153662 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    23.840413 sq. miles (61.746383 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            67400
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             35.573047 N, 94.506071 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Short, OK
      Short
  

















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