Definition: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Main entry: short
Definition: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
Main entry: short, short circuit
Definition: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Main entry: short, short-circuit
Definition: create a short circuit in
Main entry: short, short-change
Definition: cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Main entry: curt, brusk, brusque, short
Definition: marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Usage: try to cultivate a less brusque manner; a curt reply; the salesgirl was very short with him
Main entry: short
Definition: tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
Usage: shortbread is a short crumbly cookie; a short flaky pie crust
Main entry: short
Definition: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
Usage: short skirts; short hair; the board was a foot short; a short toss
Main entry: short
Definition: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
Usage: a short life; a short flight; a short holiday; a short story; only a few short months
Main entry: short
Definition: of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
Usage: the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short
Main entry: short
Definition: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
Usage: a short sale; short in cotton
Main entry: short, shortsighted, myopic, unforesightful
Definition: lacking foresight or scope
Usage: a short view of the problem; shortsighted policies; shortsighted critics derided the plan; myopic thinking
Main entry: unretentive, forgetful, short
Definition: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
Usage: a short memory
Main entry: inadequate, poor, short
Definition: not sufficient to meet a need
Usage: an inadequate income; a poor salary; money is short; on short rations; food is in short supply; short on experience
Main entry: light, scant, short
Definition: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Usage: a light pound; a scant cup of sugar; regularly gives short weight
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Usage: he was short and stocky; short in stature; a short smokestack; a little man
Main entry: suddenly, dead, short, abruptly
Definition: quickly and without warning
Usage: he stopped suddenly
Main entry: curtly, short, shortly
Definition: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
Usage: he told me curtly to get on with it; he talked short with everyone; he said shortly that he didn't like it
Definition: at a disadvantage
Usage: I was caught short
Main entry: short
Definition: so as to interrupt
Usage: She took him up short before he could continue
Main entry: short
Definition: at some point or distance before a goal is reached
Usage: he fell short of our expectations
Main entry: short
Definition: clean across
Usage: the car's axle snapped short
Main entry: short
Definition: without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
Usage: he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash