| short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base |
|---|---|
| short | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
| short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| short | create a short-circuit in |
| short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| short | marked by rude or peremptory shortness |
| short | most direct |
| short | quickly aroused to anger |
| short | primarily spatial sense |
| short | primarily temporal sense |
| short | (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') |
| short | (finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices |