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WIKTIONARY
shorts
Noun
  • ∙ plural of short
Noun
  • ∙ Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
  • ∙ Underwear bottoms.
  • ∙ Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes. uncountable
  • ∙ The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  • ∙ Short, inferior hemp.
short
Adjective
  • ∙ Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
  • ∙ Of comparatively little height. of a person
  • ∙ Having little duration; opposite of long.
  • ∙ Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another). followed by for
  • ∙ that is relatively close to the batsman. cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position
  • ∙ that bounced relatively far from the batsman. cricket, Of a ball
  • ∙ that falls short of the green or the hole. golf, of an approach shot or putt
  • ∙ Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.
  • ∙ 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.
  • ∙ Not distant in time; near at hand. obsolete
  • ∙ In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Adverb
  • ∙ Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
  • ∙ Unawares.
  • ∙ Without achieving a goal or requirement.
  • ∙ Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full. cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball
  • ∙ With a negative ownership position. finance
Noun
  • ∙ A short circuit.
  • ∙ A short film.
  • ∙ Used to indicate a short-length version of a size
  • ∙ A shortstop. baseball
  • ∙ A short seller. finance
  • ∙ A short sale. finance
  • ∙ A summary account.
  • ∙ A short sound, syllable, or vowel. phonetics
  • ∙ An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long. programming
Verb
  • ∙ To cause a short circuit in (something). transitive
  • ∙ Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit. intransitive
  • ∙ To shortchange. transitive
  • ∙ To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. transitive
  • ∙ 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. transitive, business
  • ∙ To shorten. obsolete
Preposition
  • ∙ Deficient in.
  • ∙ Having a negative position in. finance