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单词 short
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Short
nnoun.artifactthe location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
Part Holonyms:baseball diamond diamond infield
Hypernyms:parcel parcel of land piece of ground piece of land tract
Inherited Hypernyms:shorttractgeographical arearegionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.artifactaccidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Synset:short circuit
Derivationally Related Form:short
Part Holonyms:circuit electric circuit electrical circuit
Hypernyms:contact tangency
Inherited Hypernyms:short circuitcontactjunctionconnectioninstrumentalityartifactwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.actthe fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Synset:shortstop
Member Holonyms:baseball team
Hypernyms:position
Inherited Hypernyms:shortstoppositionroleactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
vverb.socialcheat someone by not returning him enough money
Synset:short-change
Hypernyms:bunco con defraud diddle goldbrick hornswoggle mulct nobble rook scam short-change swindle victimize
Inherited Hypernyms:short-changevictimizecheatvictimizewrongtreatinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody
vverb.creationcreate a short circuit in
Synset:short-circuit
Derivationally Related Form:short
Hypernyms:create make
Inherited Hypernyms:short-circuitmake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
adjadj.allprimarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
Attributes:duration length
Examples:
  • a short life
  • a short flight
  • a short holiday
  • a short story
  • only a few short months
Antonyms:long
Derivationally Related Form:shortness
Inherited Hypernyms:short
Similar to:abbreviated shortened truncated brief clipped fleeting fugitive momentaneous momentary short-dated short-range short-run short-term short and sweet
adjadj.all(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
Attributes:length
Examples:
  • short skirts
  • short hair
  • the board was a foot short
  • a short toss
Antonyms:long
Derivationally Related Form:shortness
Inherited Hypernyms:short
Similar to:abbreviated brief close curtal sawed-off sawn-off shortened short-range short-snouted shortish snub stubby shortened telescoped truncate truncated
adjadj.alllow in stature; not tall
Attributes:height stature
Synset:little
Examples:
  • he was short and stocky
  • short in stature
  • a short smokestack
  • a little man
Antonyms:tall
Derivationally Related Form:shortness
Inherited Hypernyms:short
Similar to:chunky dumpy low-set squat squatty stumpy compact heavyset stocky thick thickset half-length pint-size pint-sized runty sawed-off sawn-off short-stalked squab squabby
See also:low
adj satadj.allof insufficient quantity to meet a need
Synset:inadequate jejune poor
Examples:
  • 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
Antonyms:sufficient
Derivationally Related Form:poornessshortnessjejunityjejunenessinadequateness
Inherited Hypernyms:inadequate
Similar to:deficient insufficient
adjadj.all(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
Synset:forgetful unretentive
Examples:
  • a short memory
Antonyms:retentive
Derivationally Related Form:shortnessforgetfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:unretentive
See also:forgetful mindless unmindful
adjadj.allnot holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
Topic:finance
Examples:
  • a short sale
  • short in cotton
Antonyms:long
Inherited Hypernyms:short
adjadj.allof speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
Topic:phonetics
Examples:
  • the English vowel sounds in 'pat', 'pet', 'pit', 'pot', putt' are short
Antonyms:long
Inherited Hypernyms:short
adj satadj.allless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Synset:light scant
Examples:
  • a light pound
  • a scant cup of sugar
  • regularly gives short weight
Antonyms:sufficient
Derivationally Related Form:scantness
Inherited Hypernyms:light
Similar to:deficient insufficient
adj satadj.alllacking foresight or scope
Synset:myopic shortsighted unforesightful
Examples:
  • a short view of the problem
  • shortsighted policies
  • shortsighted critics derided the plan
  • myopic thinking
Antonyms:provident
Derivationally Related Form:shortsightedness
Inherited Hypernyms:short
Similar to:improvident
adj satadj.alltending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
Examples:
  • shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
  • a short flaky pie crust
Antonyms:unbreakable
Inherited Hypernyms:short
Similar to:breakable
adj satadj.allmarked by rude or peremptory shortness
Synset:brusk brusque curt
Examples:
  • try to cultivate a less brusque manner
  • a curt reply
  • the salesgirl was very short with him
Antonyms:courteous
Derivationally Related Form:curtnessshortnessbrusqueness
Inherited Hypernyms:brusque
Similar to:discourteous
advadv.allquickly and without warning
Synset:abruptly dead suddenly
Examples:
  • he stopped suddenly
Pertainyms:suddenabrupt
Inherited Hypernyms:abruptly
advadv.allwithout possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
Topic:finance
Examples:
  • he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
Inherited Hypernyms:short
advadv.allclean across
Examples:
  • the car's axle snapped short
Inherited Hypernyms:short
advadv.allat some point or distance before a goal is reached
Examples:
  • he fell short of our expectations
Inherited Hypernyms:short
advadv.allso as to interrupt
Examples:
  • She took him up short before he could continue
Inherited Hypernyms:short
advadv.allat a disadvantage
Synset:unawares
Examples:
  • I was caught short
Inherited Hypernyms:short
advadv.allin a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
Synset:curtly shortly
Examples:
  • he told me curtly to get on with it
  • he talked short with everyone
  • he said shortly that he didn't like it
Pertainyms:shortcurt
Inherited Hypernyms:curtly
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