Definition: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Similar words: position
Definition: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
Usage: what position does he play?
Synonyms: short
Definition: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
Similar words: piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel, parcel of land
Definition: an extended area of land
Synonyms: short, short circuit
Definition: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Similar words: contact, tangency
Definition: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
Usage: they forget to solder the contacts
Synonyms: short, short-circuit
Definition: create a short circuit in
Definition: make or cause to be or to become
Usage: make a mess in one's office; create a furor
Synonyms: short, short-change
Definition: cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Similar words: hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize
Definition: deprive of by deceit
Usage: He swindled me out of my inheritance; She defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: discourteous
Definition: showing no courtesy; rude
Usage: a distant and at times discourteous young
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: breakable
Definition: capable of being broken or damaged
Usage: earthenware pottery is breakable; breakable articles should be packed carefully
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: brief, abbreviated
Definition: (of clothing) very short
Usage: an abbreviated swimsuit; a brief bikini
Similar words: close
Definition: used of hair or haircuts
Usage: a close military haircut
Similar words: curtal
Definition: (obsolete) cut short
Usage: a dog with a curtal tail
Similar words: shortened, sawed-off, sawn-off
Definition: cut short
Usage: a sawed-off shotgun; a sawed-off broomstick; the shortened rope was easier to use
Similar words: shortish
Definition: somewhat short
Similar words: short-range
Definition: limited to short distances
Usage: short-range planes; a short-range shot
Similar words: short-snouted
Definition: having a snout that is shorter than average
Similar words: snub
Definition: unusually short
Usage: a snub nose
Similar words: stubby
Definition: short and blunt
Usage: stubby fingers; a stubby pencil
Similar words: telescoped, shortened
Definition: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
Usage: a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars; years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
Similar words: truncate, truncated
Definition: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
Usage: a truncate leaf; truncated volcanic mountains; a truncated pyramid
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: shortened, abbreviated, truncated
Definition: cut short in duration
Usage: the abbreviated speech; her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking; an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
Similar words: brief
Definition: of short duration or distance
Usage: a brief stay in the country
Similar words: clipped
Definition: (of speech) having quick short sounds
Usage: a clipped upper-class accent
Similar words: momentaneous, momentary, fugitive, fleeting
Definition: lasting for a markedly brief time
Usage: a fleeting glance; fugitive hours; rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass; a momentary glimpse
Similar words: short and sweet
Definition: dealt with very quickly; to the point
Usage: the conference was short and sweet; make your statement short and sweet
Similar words: short-dated
Definition: of a gilt-edged security; having less than 5 years to run before redemption
Similar words: short-range
Definition: relating to the near future
Usage: a short-range policy
Similar words: short-run, short-term
Definition: relating to or extending over a limited period
Usage: short-run planning; a short-term lease; short-term credit
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: improvident
Definition: not provident; not providing for the future
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: deficient, insufficient
Definition: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Usage: insufficient funds
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
Similar words: deficient, insufficient
Definition: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Usage: insufficient funds
Definition: low in stature; not tall
Usage: he was short and stocky; short in stature; a short smokestack; a little man
Similar words: low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, dumpy, chunky
Definition: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Usage: some people seem born to be square and chunky; a dumpy little dumpling of a woman; dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears; a little church with a squat tower; a squatty red smokestack; a stumpy ungainly figure
Similar words: compact, stocky, thick, thickset, heavyset
Definition: having a short and solid form or stature
Usage: a wrestler of compact build; he was tall and heavyset; stocky legs; a thickset young man
Similar words: half-length
Definition: representing only the upper half of the body
Usage: a half-length portrait
Similar words: runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, pint-size, pint-sized
Definition: well below average height
Similar words: short-stalked
Definition: of plants having relatively short stalks
Definition: short and fat