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Definition: Short |
ShortAdjective1. 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". 2. Primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss". 3. Low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack". 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". 5. (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton". 6. (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt'). 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". 9. (prosody) 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". 12. : unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students". 13. : quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander". 14. : most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town". 15. : marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him". Adverb1. Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly". 2. (finance) 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". 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". Noun1. 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. 3. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base. Verb1. Cheat someone by not returning him enough money. 2. Create a short-circuit in. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "short" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | (1) The selling side of an open futures contract; (2) a trader whose net position in the futures market shows an excess of open sales over open purchases. See long. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Having a consistency to form drops when the coating is flowing through a narrow orifice. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A short-dated Government stock, i. e. with a life of less than five years. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Qualifies an investor who has sold a security in the hope of buying it back at a lower price. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The activity of selling something prior to owning it. In securities markets, selling short means a trader sells a futures contract or makes a forward contract for the sale of a cash commodity or instrument without owning what is sold. The trader must then buy an identical amount in order to deliver what has been sold. The trader will make a profit in a market with declining prices, since he will buy for a price less than the previous price at which he sold. See long. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A short length of sawn timber, generally less than 6 ft(1. 8m)long. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Refuse, chippings, or trimmings, discarded in various manufacturing processes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Short My name is Short. I'm in a hurry and cannot wait. "Well, but let us hear the wishes (said the old man); my name is short, and I cannot stay much longer."- W. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry. p. 240. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support, a spotting, or an observation, used by an observer to indicate that a burst(s) occurred short of the target in relation to the spotting line. (references) |
Mining | A. Said of roof shale that tends to break up or crush under pressure into small fragments and that will not hold in any span over a few inches. Also called tender b. Brittle; friable; breaking or crumbling readily; inclined to flake off; said of coal. c. Used to denote a roof that has very little structural strengt. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nigel Short (born June 1, 1965) is an English chess player. In 1993 he played Garry Kasparov for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship, losing 12.5 - 7.5. He had won matches against former world champion Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman on his way to meeting Kasparov.One of Short's best tournament results came at the Amsterdam VSB tournament in 1991 when he tied for first place with Valery Salov ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov. In April 2003 he won the Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament held in Budapest ahead of Boris Gelfand, Judit Polgar and Peter Leko among others (Polgar and Leko were in the world's top ten at the time).
In recognition of his chess accomplishments, he was awarded the honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) title.
In the October 2003 FIDE rating list, Short was ranked number 17 in the world with an Elo rating of 2701, making him England's number two (behind Michael Adams).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nigel Short."
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A short circuit is a fault in electrical apparatus whereby electrical current is allowed to flow between a phase and the electrical earth or between two phases.Short circuits are usually caused when a breakdown of insulation occurs, or when a conducting medium, such as water allows current to flow.
Short circuits can cause significant damage to electrical installations, which are normally protected by fuses, circuit breaker or other overload protection. In computer programming, short circuiting is a method of evaluating boolean expressions in which only the first argument of the '\'and and or operators is evaluated if this is sufficient to determine the value overall. In the case of and, if the first argument is false, the whole expression is false, and the second argument is not evaluated. In the case of or'', if the first argument is true, the whole expression is true, and the second argument is not evaluated. Not only may this eliminate expensive computation in the second argument, but it allows a style of programming where the first argument first checks a condition without which the second argument may cause a run-time error.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Short circuit."
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The Short Parliament (April - May 1640) of King Charles I is so called because it lasted only three weeks.Charles recalled Parliament in 1640, after eleven years of attempting to rule without one. He was forced to call the Short Parliament primarily to obtain money to finance his military struggle with Scotland in the Bishops' Wars. Like its predecessors, the new parliament had greater interest in redressing perceived grievances occasioned by the royal administration. Charles's attempt to cease the levying of Ship Money did not impress the Members of Parliament. Impatient with their thoroughgoing ways, Charles dissolved the body (5 May 1640) after only three weeks' sitting. It would be followed by the Long Parliament.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Short Parliament."
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.From Robert Frost - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
The short syllables are the ones not in bold print in this iambic pentameter line. The bold ones are called "long syllables" or stressed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Short syllable."
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Short is a town located in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 328.Geography
Short is located at 35°34'23" North, 94°30'22" West (35.573047, -94.506071)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 61.7 km² (23.8 mi²). 61.6 km² (23.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.25% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 328 people, 116 households, and 101 families residing in the town. The population density is 5.3/km² (13.8/mi²). There are 143 housing units at an average density of 2.3/km² (6.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 73.48% White, 0.00% African American, 22.87% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 3.35% from two or more races. 2.13% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 116 households out of which 44.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% are married couples living together, 11.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 12.9% are non-families. 12.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.83 and the average family size is 3.06. In the town the population is spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 117.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 112.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $25,625, and the median income for a family is $25,938. Males have a median income of $26,042 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the town is $9,613. 31.6% of the population and 29.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 26.0% are under the age of 18 and 35.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Short, Oklahoma."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| sh | English | Short | Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ShortSynonyms: brusk (adj), brusque (adj), choleric (adj), curt (adj), hotheaded (adj), hot-tempered (adj), inadequate (adj), irascible (adj), light (adj), poor (adj), quick-tempered (adj), scant(p) (adj), short(p) (adj), shortest (adj), shortsighted (adj), short-tempered (adj), unforbearing (adj), unforesightful (adj), abruptly (adv), curtly (adv), dead (adv), shortly (adv), suddenly (adv), unawares (adv), short circuit (n), shortstop (n), short-change (v), short-circuit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: long (adj), tall (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Brittleness | Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass. |
Conciseness | Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. |
Discourtesy | Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible). |
Littleness | Adjective: little; small; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short. |
Shortcoming | Adjective: unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth; perfunctory; (neglect). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Long people have short faces (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) And they'd just eat with their mouths open, and to be honest, it was too much for me. You get to be thinking about how short life is, and how maybe everything has no meaning, because you wake up, and you're frying burgers, and you're like 60, 70, and then you check out, you know (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) He ought to be kept on a short leash (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) Me, I think he did it just to feel normal again, if only for a short while (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) | |
Lyrics | Short coat (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) You're only dancing on this earth for a short while (Oh Very Young; performing artist: Cat Stevens) Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) If you should fall short of your desires (Ain't No Mountain High Enough; performing artist: Diana Ross) Mama's little baby likes it short and sweet (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White) | |
Clever | There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. (references; author: Mark Twain) Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again (references; author: unknown) British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply (references; author: unknown) To make a long story short, don't tell it. (references; author: unknown) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks. (references; author: unknown) Short folder. (references; author: unknown) Six short slow shepherds. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Short Cut (1973) Columbo: Short Fuse (1972) Short Walk to Daylight (1972) Episode #3 Tee-Won Short (1970) | |
Song Titles | SHORT PEOPLE (performing artist: Randy Newman ) | |
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 | Pictured is a darkened room with a lighted screen and remote keyboard. A technician is seated and with the left hand is pointing to the screen showing blue, red and purple images. This is an ultrasonic device. This imaging device sends short bursts of sound into the body. Echoes are reflected from tissues and transformed on the screen into colored outlines of tissues and organs. This may also be used as a therapy method. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Common characteristics of the genus Psorophora include banding or patches on abdominal segments with apically located pale scales, a pointed abdomen, and a short palpus. Credit: CDC. |
 | An illustration depicting a lateral view of a Mansonia mosquito with a blunt abdomen, short palpus, irregular pattern of the mesonotum and broad, bi-colored wing scales. Credit: CDC. |  | Carl I. Aslakson on left - Ensign Neal on right "The long and the short of it". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Short wave radio recorder Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | On the way back home - a short stop in the Yakutat area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A short harpoon is used for the small tuna. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, is a small phocid with a stubby, compact body and short limbs. Colors range from silver-gray to tan and all are spotted. They occur in almost all nearshore environments from Baja,California to the Bering Sea. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Short spined urchin, probably Brissus latercarinatus. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship ONWARD. This vessel was received from the Navy following WWI and served with the C&GS for a short time before being returned to the Navy in 1920. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Red flower" by Matt Hudson Commentary: "Using a very short depth of field this photo was taken without a tripod." | "Mangiare il Pane" by Lucio Mondini Commentary: "A short book of illustrations." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Amplified harmonica using a call and response; a beginning of a short jam. | | Ostinato bass with a ride cymbal percussion for a short minor blues piano solo. |
| A short waltz passage typical of a Viennese waltz style. | | A classical guitar solo playing a short etude for guitar. |
| A short, corny introduction very typical of Bivay in the 1930's. | | A short modern jazz excerpt with a synthesized patch solo using a typical ending. |
| Short piece which may have been heard on television shows like Miami Vice circa 1980's. | | A short minor melody played on hammered dulcimer with a string drone. |
| A short excerpt featuring a chordal melody with accompanying bass counterpoint. | | Reverb-drenched short guitar excerpt. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Baltasar Gracian | Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
Confucius | To go beyond is as bad as to fall short. |
Horace | Whatever advice you give, be short. |
Jean De La Fontaine | In short, luck's always to blame. |
John Milton | A short retirement urges a sweet return. |
Joseph Joubert | The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | A Constitution should be short and obscure. |
Ovid | A short absence is the safest. |
Sophocles | A short saying often contains much wisdom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | It shall be lawful in future for anyone (excepting always those imprisoned or outlawed in accordance with the law of the kingdom, and natives of any country at war with us, and merchants, who shall be treated as if above provided) to leave our kingdom and to return, safe and secure by land and water, except for a short period in time of war, on grounds of public policy- reserving always the allegiance due to us. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | That is, in short, not to multiply cases, in whatsoever he has no authority, there he is no king, and may be resisted: for wheresoever the authority ceases, the king ceases too, and becomes like other men who have no authority. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Beware, I say; time may be short. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | And, in short, from knowing his usual ways, I am very much inclined to think that it was for their accommodation the carriage was used at all. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | In a very short time, things settled down into a regular routine |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was upon one of the upper shelves, and as the bishop was rather short, he could not reach it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A short loud laugh from Mr Tate set the class more at ease |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The short, lean wheat has been made big and productive |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Trim fingernails short. (references) | |
Have your hair cut short. (references) | ||
Some women have short times of heavy bleeding. (references) | ||
Business | Housing is also in short supply, and often inadequate. (references) | |
It supplements circuit-switched data in short message services. (references) | ||
Equipment often has a short life cycle and skills are expensive. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | However, compromises in many areas, including Stolac, Donji Vakuf, and Vares, fell far short of actual integration. (references) |
Korea | School children sometimes are sent to work in factories or in the fields for short periods to assist in completing special projects or in meeting production goals. (references) | |
El Salvador | Rural areas fell short of providing a 9th grade education to all potential students, in part because of a lack of resources and in part because many rural parents withdraw their children from school by the 6th grade to work. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | Men also were required to wear head coverings and to wear their hair short. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Authorities held their passports for a short period until a court ordered their deportation. (references) | |
Nepal | Radio, primarily short and medium waves, reaches the greatest number of persons and has the largest influence. (references) | |
Economic History | Portugal | Fortunately, most strikes are of short duration. (references) |
Zambia | Skilled and professional workers are in short supply. (references) | |
Denmark | Benny Andersen writes poems, short stories, and music. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Most were released after a short period. (references) |
Nicaragua | Medical care available to prisoners fell far short of basic needs. (references) | |
China | The amended law also falls short of international standards in other respects. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | The Constitution grants the indigenous population broad rights, including the protection of their cultural patrimony and the exclusive use of their traditional lands; however, the Government has fallen short of securing these rights for indigenous people in practice. (references) |
Minorities | Indonesia | While many reside in Singapore, there also are sizeable Sino-Indonesian populations in Australia and the U.S. Prominent Sino-Indonesians estimate that approximately half of the Sino-Indonesian men living abroad occasionally return to their homes for short visits to protect their remaining business interests, but most keep their families and the bulk of their capital offshore or in other parts of the country. (references) |
Political Economy | SAUDI ARABIA | Government domestic borrowing has a short history in Saudi Arabia. (references) |
Political Rights | Lesotho | This judgement encouraged the opposition to charge that errors short of fraud could have affected the results. (references) |
Tajikistan | A cumbersome registration process required candidates to obtain large numbers of signatures during a short period of time. (references) | |
Malaysia | The opposition also has stated that the short official campaign period gives an advantage to the incumbent ruling coalition. (references) | |
Trade | Guatemala | Most lending takes the form of short term and/or signature loans. (references) |
Philippines | Most commercial bank loans are short to medium-term, subject to renewal/rollover. (references) | |
Nepal | Banks are only willing to lend short term but will consider loans with terms up to five years. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Gaoui: The best short visit from N'Djamena. (references) |
Egypt | Facilities outside of Cairo fall short of U.S. standards. (references) | |
Egypt | A few foreign firms come to Egypt and give up after a short stay. (references) | |
Women | Sweden | However, women complain about short sentences and the early release of offenders. (references) |
Brazil | However, a Ministry of Justice report released in November revealed that many of the women's stations fell far short of standards. (references) | |
East Timor | In such cases, the perpetrator is not held accountable under criminal laws and the punishment falls short of international standards. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | When they occur, they usually are illegal and short. (references) |
Uzbekistan | There were several localized and short strikes during the year. (references) | |
Austria | Historically strikes have been comparatively few and usually of short duration. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gary Condit | I wasn't being specific. I mean, I was acknowledging the fact that I've not been a perfect man. You know, we've all sinned or come short and, you know, I have. And I've asked for forgiveness every time I have. But there's lots of ways we commit sins. |
Mary Tyler Moore | Oh, they had a lot of conflicts. They were always making up. But that's like a family. You know, there was never anything that couldn't be fixed within a very short period of time. |
Nancy Grace | Well, as you know, I'm clearly not a New Yorker. But long story short, I don't care what the man's driving. I care about the girl's blood on the clothes that he was taking to the cleaner the weekend of her disappearance. |
Phyllis Diller | Short of breathness. Short breath. I am short of breath. But right now, I'm fine because I'm looking at you. |
Robert Novak | In the short time left for this year's session of Congress, the Senate faces partisan struggles over an economic stimulus bill and aid to farmers and the insurance industry. |
Rush Limbaugh | But if you can get a short nap in and wake up, it will be the same effect as if you had gotten six hours of sleep the night before. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Such materials, for your information, relative to its affairs in general as the short space of time has permitted me to collect will be laid before you when the subject shall be in a state for your consideration. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing short of a radical change in the action of the Government upon the subject can, in my opinion, remedy the evil. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Even with maximum encouragement of production, we cannot hope to remove scarcities within a short time. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | In short, both at home and abroad, there may now be a temptation to relax. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I will be brief, for our time is necessarily short and our agenda is already long. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Unfortunately, in the short term there are only a limited number of actions which can increase domestic supply. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are now in the early stages of economic recovery following a short recession. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | If we don't, the recovery will be too short, unemployment will remain too high, and we will leave an unconscionable burden of national debt for our children. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. |
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| "Short" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.43% of the time. "Short" is used about 14,485 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.43% | 13,533 | 675 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.34% | 628 | 10,333 |
| Adverb (general) | 2.21% | 320 | 16,119 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,485 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "short" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Short | Last name | 21,000 | 550 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "short": a button short ♦ a man of short stature ♦ A short cut ♦ a short life and a merry one ♦ a short time ago ♦ a short time before ♦ a short time since ♦ a short way off ♦ a short while ♦ ad in short ♦ adjustable short circuit ♦ after a short space ♦ anything short of murder ♦ at short date ♦ At short notice ♦ battle short switch ♦ be on short allowance ♦ be short ♦ be short by ♦ be short of ♦ be short of by ♦ be short of cash ♦ be short of funds ♦ be short of people ♦ be taken short ♦ become short ♦ break short ♦ breathe short ♦ bring short ♦ chuck short ribs ♦ collection of short stories ♦ come short ♦ come short of ♦ come short of one's duty ♦ crop short ♦ cut a visit short ♦ cut it short ♦ cut one short ♦ cut short ♦ cut smb. short ♦ cutting short ♦ dead short ♦ deposit at short notice ♦ fall short ♦ fall short of ♦ fall short of one's aim ♦ fall short of one's expectation ♦ fall short of the mark ♦ for a short time ♦ for a short while ♦ for short ♦ for short stay ♦ from a short distance ♦ give a short shrift to smb. ♦ give short shrift ♦ give short shrift to ♦ give short weight ♦ give smb. a short shrift ♦ go short of ♦ goods in short supply ♦ have a short fuse ♦ have a short of luck ♦ have a short weight ♦ Hove short ♦ i am short of money ♦ in a short time ♦ in a short while ♦ in short ♦ in short order ♦ in short pants ♦ in short supply ♦ in the short run ♦ in the short term ♦ keep silence for short time ♦ long short story ♦ make a long story short ♦ make short visit ♦ make short work of ♦ of short duration ♦ on short notice ♦ poured short ♦ presume upon a short acquaintance ♦ protected short sale ♦ pull smb. up short ♦ pull up short ♦ put on short allowance ♦ run short ♦ run short of ♦ run short of smth. ♦ sell short ♦ selling short ♦ short account ♦ short and ♦ short and sweet ♦ short and the long of the matter ♦ short aria ♦ short article ♦ short bone ♦ Short Bowel Syndrome ♦ short breather ♦ short brush of bound straw. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "short": short-acting, short-and, short-and-long, short-and-mild, short-armed, short-arse, short-arsed, short-axis, short-back-and-sides, short-barrelled, short-based, short-billed, short-billed marsh wren, short-bodied, short-break, Short-breathed, short-cake, Short-chain, short-change, short-changed, short-changers, short-changing, short-circuit, Short-circuited, Short-circuiting, short-circuits, short-coated, short-coming, short-comings, short-contract, short-corner, short-course, short-courses, short-covering, short-crested, short-cropped, short-cumings, short-cut, short-cuts, short-cutting, short-dated, short-day, short-distance, short-distances, short-duration, short-eared, short-eared owl, short-ended, short-faced, short-fall, short-falling, short-falls, short-fatness, short-field, short-fingered, short-form, short-funding, short-fuse, short-fused, short-gilt, short-grain, short-hair, short-hair-cutted, short-haired, short-hand, short-handed, short-handled, short-haul, short-haul flight, short-haul service, short-head, short-headed, short-held, short-hemmed, short-hop, short-horned, short-horned buffalo, short-horned grasshopper, short-in, short-iron, short-ish, Short-jointed, short-lasting, short-leaf pine, short-lease, short-leasehold, short-leet, short-leeting, short-leg, short-legged, short-length, short-life, short-limbed, short-line, short-list, short-listed, short-listing, short-lists, short-liv, short-lived, short-lived marriage, short-log, short-measure, short-medium, short-necked, short-nor, short-nose, short-nosed, short-notice, short-odds, short-order, short-paid, short-paragraph, short-passing, short-period, short-pile, short-pitched, short-priced, short-radius, short-range, short-range air defense, short-range air defense engagement zone, short-range missile, short-range search aircraft, short-range transport aircraft, short-reach, short-repayment-period, short-rhymed, short-robe, short-rotation, short-route, short-run, short-scale, short-scaled, short-sea, short-season, short-selling, short-sentence, short-series, short-service, short-sharp-shock, short-shield, short-shrifted, short-side, short-sight, short-sighted, short-sightedly, short-sightedness, short-sixes, short-skirt, short-skirted, short-sleeve, short-sleeved, short-sleeved shirt, short-sleeves, short-snorter, Short-snorters, short-snouted, Short-spoken, short-spurred fragrant orchid, short-staffed, short-stay, short-stemmed, short-sterling, short-stop, short-stop bath, short-stories, short-story, short-straw, short-stroke, short-sword, short-tail, short-tailed, short-tailed shrew, short-tempered, short-temperedly, short-term, short-term contract, short-term liability, short-term memory, short-term solution, short-termers, short-termism, short-termist, short-throw, short-time, short-time, Short-title, short-to, short-toed, short-toed eagle, short-to-medium, short-track, short-trader, short-trousered, short-tubed, short-turfed, short-vowel, Short-waisted, short-water, short-wave, short-wave equipment, short-wave length, Short-Wave Therapy, short-wavelength, short-weapons, short-weight, short-wheel, short-wheelbase, short-whip, short-winded, short-windedness, short-winged, Short-wited, short-witted, short-word, short-working, short-workings. | |
Ending with "short": too-short. | |
Containing "short": ultra-short wave. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
short hair style | 11,586 | short hills nj | 330 |