ALL meanings of shortest
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S s - noun shortest Military. a shot that strikes or bursts short of the target. 1
- noun shortest Electricity. short circuit. 1
- noun shortest Prosody. a short sound or syllable. 1
- noun shortest Baseball. shortstop (def 1). 1
- noun shortest Movies. short subject. 1
- noun shortest Finance. short seller. 1
- noun shortest a deficiency or the amount of a deficiency. 1
- noun shortest Chiefly British. a small drink of straight whiskey; shot. 1
- verb with object shortest to cause a short circuit in. 1
- verb with object shortest to cheat by giving less than is expected or deserved; shortchange. 1
- verb without object shortest to short-circuit. 1
- idioms shortest cut short, to end abruptly; terminate: Her nap was cut short by a loud noise from outside. 1
- idioms shortest fall / come short, to fail to reach a particular standard. to prove insufficient; be lacking: Her funds fell short, and she had to wire home for help. 1
- idioms shortest for short, by way of abbreviation: Her name is Patricia, and she's called Pat for short. 1
- idioms shortest in short, in summary. in few words; in brief: In short, this has been rather a disappointing day. 1
- idioms shortest make short work of. work (def 53). 1
- idioms shortest run short, to be in insufficient supply: My patience is running short. 1
- idioms shortest sell short, Stock Exchange. to sell stocks or the like without having them in one's actual possession at the time of the sale. to disparage or underestimate: Don't sell Tom short; he's really an excellent engineer. 1
- idioms shortest short and sweet, pleasantly brief. pertinent: We're in a hurry, so make it short and sweet. 1
- idioms shortest short for, being a shorter form of; abbreviated to: “Phone” is short for “telephone.”. 1
- idioms shortest short of, less than; inferior to. inadequately supplied with (money, food, etc.). without going to the length of; failing of; excluding: Short of murder, there is nothing he wouldn't have tried to get what he wanted. 1
- adjective shortest having little length; not long. 1
- adjective shortest having little height; not tall: a short man. 1
- adjective shortest extending or reaching only a little way: a short path. 1
- adjective shortest brief in duration; not extensive in time: a short wait. 1
- adjective shortest brief or concise, as writing. 1
- adjective shortest rudely brief; abrupt; hurting: short behavior. 1
- adjective shortest low in amount; scanty: short rations. 1
- adjective shortest not reaching a point, mark, target, or the like; not long enough or far enough. 1
- adjective shortest below the standard in extent, quantity, duration, etc.: short measure. 1
- adjective shortest having a scanty or insufficient amount of (often followed by in or on): He was short in experience. 1
- adjective shortest being below a necessary or desired level; lacking: The office is short due to winter colds and flu. 1
- adjective shortest Cookery. (of pastry and the like) crisp and flaky; breaking or crumbling readily from being made with a large proportion of butter or other shortening. (of dough) containing a relatively large amount of shortening. 1
- adjective shortest (of metals) deficient in tenacity; friable; brittle. 1
- adjective shortest (of the head or skull) of less than ordinary length from front to back. 1
- adjective shortest Stock Exchange. not possessing at the time of sale commodities or stocks that one sells. noting or pertaining to a sale of commodities or stocks that the seller does not possess, depending for profit on a decline in prices. 1
- adjective shortest Phonetics. lasting a relatively short time: “Bit” has a shorter vowel-sound than “bid” or “bead.”. belonging to a class of sounds considered as usually shorter in duration than another class, as the vowel of but as compared to that of bought, and in many languages serving as a distinctive feature of phonemes, as the a in German Bann in contrast with the ah in Bahn, or the t in Italian fato in contrast with the tt in fatto (opposed to long). having the sound of the English vowels in bat, bet, bit, hot, but, and put, historically descended from vowels that were short in duration. 1
- adjective shortest Prosody. (of a syllable in quantitative verse) lasting a relatively shorter time than a long syllable. unstressed (def 1). 1
- adjective shortest (of an alcoholic drink) small: a short drink. 1
- adjective shortest Chiefly British. (of whiskey) undiluted; straight. 1
- adjective shortest Ceramics. (of clay) not plastic enough to be modeled. 1
- adjective shortest Ropemaking. hard (def 39). 1
- adverb shortest abruptly or suddenly: to stop short. 1
- adverb shortest briefly; curtly. 1
- adverb shortest on the near side of an intended or particular point: The arrow landed short. 1
- adverb shortest Baseball. with the hands higher on the handle of the bat than usual: He held the bat short and flied out. in a fielding position closer to home plate than usual. 1
- noun shortest something that is short. 1
- noun shortest that which is deficient or lacking. 1
- noun shortest the sum and substance of a matter; gist (usually preceded by the). 1
- noun shortest shorts. trousers, knee-length or shorter. short pants worn by men as an undergarment. knee breeches, formerly worn by men. Finance. short-term bonds. Mining. crushed ore failing to pass through a given screen, thus being of a larger given size than a specific grade. Compare fine1 (def 28a). remnants, discards, or refuse of various cutting and manufacturing processes. 1