As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
brusque, brusk, curt, short
(adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness; âtry to cultivate a less brusque mannerâ; âa curt replyâ; âthe salesgirl was very short with himâ
short
(adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; âshortbread is a short crumbly cookieâ; âa short flaky pie crustâ
short
(adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; âshort skirtsâ; âshort hairâ; âthe board was a foot shortâ; âa short tossâ
short
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; âa short lifeâ; âa short flightâ; âa short holidayâ; âa short storyâ; âonly a few short monthsâ
short
(adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; âthe English vowel sounds in âpatâ, âpetâ, âpitâ, âpotâ, puttâ are shortâ
short
(adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; âa short saleâ; âshort in cottonâ
short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
(adjective) lacking foresight or scope; âa short view of the problemâ; âshortsighted policiesâ; âshortsighted critics derided the planâ; âmyopic thinkingâ
unretentive, forgetful, short
(adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; âa short memoryâ
inadequate, poor, short, jejune
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need; âan inadequate incomeâ; âa poor salaryâ; âmoney is shortâ; âon short rationsâ; âfood is in short supplyâ; âshort on experienceâ; âthe jejune diets of the very poorâ
light, scant, short
(adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; âa light poundâ; âa scant cup of sugarâ; âregularly gives short weightâ
short, little
(adjective) low in stature; not tall; âhe was short and stockyâ; âshort in statureâ; âa short smokestackâ; âa little manâ
abruptly, suddenly, short, dead
(adverb) quickly and without warning; âhe stopped suddenlyâ
curtly, short, shortly
(adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; âhe told me curtly to get on with itâ; âhe talked short with everyoneâ; âhe said shortly that he didnât like itâ
short, unawares
(adverb) at a disadvantage; âI was caught shortâ
short
(adverb) so as to interrupt; âShe took him up short before he could continueâ
short
(adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached; âhe fell short of our expectationsâ
short
(adverb) clean across; âthe carâs axle snapped shortâ
short
(adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; âhe made his fortune by selling short just before the crashâ
shortstop, short
(noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
short
(noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
short, short-circuit
(verb) create a short circuit in
short, short-change
(verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Short
A surname.
• Stohr, horst, hotrs, thors, trosh
short (comparative shorter, superlative shortest)
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
(of a person) Of comparatively small height.
Having little duration.
Antonym: long
(followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
(cricket, of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
(golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
(of pastries) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening.)
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
• (having a small distance between ends or edges): Short is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is shallow in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension narrow is more commonly used.
• (having a small distance between ends or edges): low, narrow, slim, shallow
• (of a person, of comparatively little height): little, pint-sized, petite, titchy (slang)
• (having little duration): brief, concise
• (constituting an abbreviation (for)): an abbreviation of, a short form of
• (having a small distance between ends or edges): tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long
• (of a person, of comparatively little height): tall
• (having little duration): long
• (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position, relatively close to the batsman): long
• (financial position expecting falling value): long
short (not comparable)
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
(finance) With a negative ownership position.
short (plural shorts)
A short circuit.
A short film.
A short version of a garment in a particular size.
(baseball) A shortstop.
(finance) A short seller.
(finance) A short sale.
A summary account.
(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
(US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
short (third-person singular simple present shorts, present participle shorting, simple past and past participle shorted)
(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
(intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
(transitive) To shortchange.
(transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
(obsolete) To shorten.
short
Deficient in.
(finance) Having a negative position in.
• (deficient in): lacking, short on
• Stohr, horst, hotrs, thors, trosh
Source: Wiktionary
Short, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] Etym: [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. Shirt.]
1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. Isa. xxviii. 20.
2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Chaucer. To short absense I could yield. Milton.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. We shall be short in our provision. Shak.
5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
6. Not distant in time; near at hand. Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. Spenser. He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. Clarendon.
7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. Rowe.
8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. Landor.
9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
10. (Cookery)
Definition: Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
11. (Metal)
Definition: Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold- short, on account of the presence of phosphorus.
12. (Stock Exchange)
Definition: Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer.
13. (Phon.)
Definition: Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30.
Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous self- explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short- winged, short-wooled, etc. At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
– Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
– Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three. R. A. Proctor.
– To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See under Come, Cut, etc.
Short, n.
1. A summary account. The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak.
2. pl.
Definition: The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. The first remove above bran is shorts. Halliwell.
3. pl.
Definition: Short, inferior hemp.
4. pl.
Definition: Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] Dickens.
5. (Phonetics)
Definition: A short sound, syllable, or vowel. If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and "naught," we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs. H. Sweet. In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.
– The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.
– The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver.
Short, adv.
Definition: In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.
Short, v. t. Etym: [AS. sceortian.]
Definition: To shorten. [Obs.]
Short, v. i.
Definition: To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.