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short
English
Etymology
From Middle English schort, short, from Old English s?eort, s?ort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kort?k?. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.
Pronunciation
- enPR: shôrt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t/
- (St. Louis (Missouri)) IPA(key): [???t]
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?o?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Adjective
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) bowled so that it bounces 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, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
- But, alas! he who escapes from death is not pardoned; he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a short day.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Usage notes
- (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.
Synonyms
- (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
Antonyms
- (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
Translations
Adverb
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.
Derived terms
- three stops short of Dagenham
Translations
Noun
short (plural shorts)
- A short circuit.
- A short film.
- 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift[2]
- Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift[2]
- 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.
- 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)
- For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
- 1982, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Career Criminal Life Sentence Act of 1981: Hearings (page 87)
- […] list of all crimes reported by these 61 daily criminals during their years on the street is: theft (this includes shoplifting; "cracking shorts", burglary and other forms of stealing), dealing, forgery, gambling, confidence games (flim-flam, etc.) […]
- 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)
Translations
See also
- shorts
Verb
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.
Translations
Preposition
short
- Deficient in.
- (finance) Having a negative position in.
Synonyms
- (deficient in): lacking, short on
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Stohr, horst, hotrs, thors, trosh
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin sors, sortem.
Noun
short m
- drawing (action where the outcome is selected by chance using a draw)
- sweepstakes
Chinese
Etymology
From English short.
Pronunciation
Adjective
short
- (Cantonese) insane; crazy
Derived terms
Verb
short
- (Cantonese, of electronics) to malfunction
- (Cantonese, electrical engineering) to short-circuit
References
- ???? [3]
French
Etymology
From English shorts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t/
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- shorts, short trousers (UK)
- Avec un pantalon, j'ai moins froid aux jambes qu'avec un short.
- “With trousers on, my legs are not as cold as with shorts on.”
- Avec un pantalon, j'ai moins froid aux jambes qu'avec un short.
Further reading
- “short” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English short.
Noun
short m (invariable)
- short (short film etc)
Middle English
Adjective
short
- Alternative form of schort
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- shorts
Etymology
From English shorts.
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- shorts (pants that do not go lower than the knees)
- Synonym: calção
Spanish
Etymology
From English shorts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??o?t/, [??o?t?]
Noun
short m (plural shorts)
- shorts
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char
English
Alternative forms
- chewre (obsolete)
Etymology 1
Back-formation from charcoal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t???/
- (US) IPA(key): /t???/, [t???], [t???]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
- To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
Synonyms
- coal
- blacken, scorch, sear, singe
Translations
Noun
char (plural chars or char)
- A charred substance.
Synonyms
- charcoal
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic, such as Irish ceara (“fiery red”) (found in personal names). Or, perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar (“flounder, dab”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz, related to *skeran? (“to cut”), referring to its shape. If so, related to shard.
Alternative forms
- charr
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t???/
- (US) IPA(key): /t???/, [t???], [t???]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
char (plural chars or char)
- One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ?ierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ?ierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return or reverse”), Greek ????? (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. More at chore, ajar.
Alternative forms
- chare
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t???/
- (US) IPA(key): /t???/, [t???], [t???]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
char (plural chars)
- (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
- (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene II.
- When thou hast done this chare, I’ll give thee leave to play till doomsday.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene II.
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
Synonyms
- charlady
- charwoman
- cleaning lady
- cleaning woman
Translations
Verb
char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charing or charring, simple past and past participle chared or charred)
- (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty" (Norton 2005, p.677)
- She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee.
- 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Lisa of Lambeth, chapter 2
- Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty" (Norton 2005, p.677)
- (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
- To work or hew (stone, etc.).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Oxf. Gloss to this entry?)
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t???/, /k??/, /k??/
- (US) IPA(key): /t???/, /k??/, /k??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
char (plural chars)
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- 1975, Computerworld - 23 April 1975 - Page 21
- The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.
- 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals
- Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.
- 1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++
- Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.
- 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#
- When a 32-bit int value is stored to a 16-bit char variable, information can be lost if the 16 most significant bits are not zeroes in the int value.
- 2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25
- .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.
- 1975, Computerworld - 23 April 1975 - Page 21
Derived terms
- signed char
- unsigned char
Related terms
- byte
- double
- float
- int
- long
- short
Etymology 5
Non-rhotic spelling of cha.
Noun
char (uncountable)
- (Britain) Alternative form of cha (tea)
References
Anagrams
- -arch, ARCH, Arch, Rach, arch, arch-, arch., rach
Atong (India)
Alternative forms
- cha
Etymology
From Hindi ??? (c?r).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ar/
Numeral
char (Bengali script ???)
- four
Synonyms
- byryi
- por
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- char baki
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: char
Interjection
char
- a noncommittal reply to an untrue statement
- spoken after something one has said that is untrue or highly ridiculous
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ar/
Conjunction
char
- H-system spelling of ?ar
French
Etymology
From Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
char m (plural chars)
- chariot, carriage
- (military) tank
- (Quebec, Louisiana, Cajun French, Missouri) car, auto
- Synonym: voiture
- (Louisiana) train car
- Synonym: voiture
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “char” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Etymology
cha +? -r
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [xa??]
Particle
char (triggers lenition of the following verb)
- (Ulster) not
Usage notes
Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only with the past tense of regular verbs and some irregular verbs.
Synonyms
- níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)
Related terms
- cha (used before other tenses)
Middle French
Alternative forms
- chair
Etymology
From Old French char, charn.
Noun
char f (plural chars)
- flesh
Descendants
- French: chair
Old French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ar/
- Rhymes: -ar
Etymology 1
From earlier charn, carn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of car?.
Alternative forms
- car
- carn (early Old French)
- charn (early Old French)
Noun
char f (oblique plural chars, nominative singular char, nominative plural chars)
- (anatomy) flesh (tissue from an animal in general)
- meat (flesh of an animal intended to be eaten)
Descendants
- Middle French: char, chair
- French: chair
Etymology 2
From Latin carrus.
Alternative forms
- carr
Noun
char m (oblique plural chars, nominative singular chars, nominative plural char)
- cart
Synonyms
- carre f
Descendants
- French: char
Romani
Noun
char f (plural chara)
- Alternative form of ?ar
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin c?rus.
Adjective
char m (feminine singular chara, masculine plural chars, feminine plural charas)
- dear
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ar/
Noun
char m
- aspirate mutation of car (“car”)
Mutation
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