short

CEFRA1

/ʃɔːt/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Measuring a small distance from end to end.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Lasting a small amount of time.

Examples

  • A rabbit has long ears and a short tail.

  • The prosecuting attorney began with a short opening statement.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having little duration.

  2. Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.

  3. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

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In context

  • You are selling him short.

  • "Phone" is short for "telephone" and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".

  • Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Doublet of shirt, skirt, and curt. Cognates Cognate with Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, 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”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. See more at shirt.