Adjective one of my legs is slightly shorter than the other.
He is short for his age.
The shortest day of the year.
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Small in length, distance, or height:
Used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of.
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Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations:
A short journey.
Brief refers esp.
To duration of time:
Brief intervals.
Extending a small distance from one end to the other end having little length not long;
Not great in distance
Short, brief are opposed to long, and indicate slight extent or duration.
Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations:
A short journey.
If you are short of something or if it is short, you do not have enough of it.
If you are running short of something or if it is running short, you do not have much of it left.
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Short er , short est 1.
Having little length;