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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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compact
English
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?m?pækt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?m?pækt/
- Adjective:
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?m?pækt/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?m?pækt/, /?k?m?pækt/
- Verb:
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /k?m?pækt/
Etymology 1
From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
Noun
compact (plural compacts)
- An agreement or contract.
- Synonyms: agreement, contract, pact, treaty
Translations
Verb
compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)
- (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
- 2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy (page 94)
- In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.
- 2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy (page 94)
Etymology 2
From Middle French [Term?], from Latin comp?ctus, perfect passive participle of comping? (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pang? (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
Adjective
compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)
- Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
- Synonyms: concentrated, crowded, dense, serried; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Hyponym: ultracompact
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
- (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
- Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
- (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Junior), The Compleat Gentleman
- a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
- (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.
Derived terms
- compact disc
- locally compact
Translations
Noun
compact (plural compacts)
- A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact [2]:
- The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.
- 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact [2]:
Translations
Verb
compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)
- (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
- To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
Synonyms
- (make more dense): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress
Translations
See also
- Compact (cosmetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- accompt
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French compact, from Latin comp?ctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m?p?kt/
- Hyphenation: com?pact
- Rhymes: -?kt
Adjective
compact (comparative compacter, superlative compactst)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
Inflection
Derived terms
- compactheid
French
Etymology
From Latin comp?ctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.pakt/
Adjective
compact (feminine singular compacte, masculine plural compacts, feminine plural compactes)
- compact (closely packed), dense
- compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
Derived terms
- disque compact
Noun
compact m (plural compacts)
- compact disc
- music center (US), music centre (UK)
- compact camera
Synonyms
- (compact disc): Compact Disc, disque compact
Further reading
- “compact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French compact, from Latin compactus.
Adjective
compact m or n (feminine singular compact?, masculine plural compac?i, feminine and neuter plural compacte)
- compact
Declension
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