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短的,近的,矮的,短期的,短暫的,簡短的,少量的簡短地,突然扼要

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Short \Short\, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [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) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
       crisp; as, short pastry.

   11. (Metal) Brittle.

   Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
         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) 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.) 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, [sect][sect]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 \Short\, adv.
   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 \Short\, n.
   1. A summary account.

            The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
      finer than the bran.

            The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.

   3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.

   4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.

   5. (Phonetics) 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 \Short\, v. t. [AS. sceortian.]
   To shorten. [Obs.]

Short \Short\, v. i.
   To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]

資料來源 : WordNet®

short
     adj 1: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to
            be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short
            flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a
            few short months" [ant: {long}]
     2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
        length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
        foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: {long}]
     3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
        in stature"; "a short smokestack" [ant: {tall}]
     4: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
        poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
        is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: {inadequate},
         {poor}]
     5: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
        expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
        cotton" [ant: {long}]
     6: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short
        duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat',
        `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') [ant: {long}]
     7: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender
        and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a
        short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
     8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
        deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
        "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}]
     9: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief
        duration
     10: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
         memory"
     11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
         "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
         the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: {shortsighted}, {unforesightful},
          {myopic}]
     12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
         students" [syn: {unforbearing}]
     13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric},
          {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered},
          {short-tempered}]
     14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
         town" [syn: {shortest}]
     15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
         less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
         very short with him" [syn: {brusque}, {brusk}, {curt}, {short(p)}]

short
     n 1: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is
          stationed
     2: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit
        that have a potential difference [syn: {short circuit}]
     3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
        is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base [syn: {shortstop}]

short
     adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: {abruptly},
             {suddenly}, {dead}]
     2: without possessing something at the time it is contractually
        sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before
        the crash"
     3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
     4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
        short of our expectations"
     5: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could
        continue"
     6: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: {unawares}]
     7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
     8: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me
        curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with
        everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn:
        {curtly}, {shortly}]

short
     v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: {short-change}]
     2: create a short-circuit in [syn: {short-circuit}]