- Types Of Speech
- You can use short as a article, noun, adverb, adjective satellite or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Short
- A 1 syllables article and 5 letters with the letters h, o, r, s, and t, 4 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter o. Short starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, sh, sho, shor, and the ending characters are t, rt, ort, hort, ..
- Definition
- The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Short is set as a grade one word that starts with s, ends with t, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 5 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is short a scrabble word? A 8 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Short in Pig Latin is said as "ortshay or ortshway".
- Unigram
- s | h | o | r | t
- Bigram
- sh | ho | or | rt
- Trigram
- sho | hor | ort
- Quadrigram
- shor | hort
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- Verb Examples
- create a short-circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning him enough money
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- most direct;
"took the shortest and most direct route to town" - quickly aroused to anger;
"a hotheaded commander" - unwilling to endure;
"she was short with the slower students" - lacking foresight or scope;
"a short view of the problem";
"shortsighted policies";
"shortsighted critics derided the plan";
"myopic thinking" - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;
"a short memory" - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
- 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" - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
"a light pound";
"a scant cup of sugar";
"regularly gives short weight" - 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"
- Article Examples
- primarily spatial sense;
having little length or lacking in length;
"short skirts";
"short hair";
"the board was a foot short";
"a short toss" - 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" - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;
"a short sale";
"short in cotton" - low in stature;
not tall;
"his was short and stocky";
"short in stature";
"a short smokestack"
- Adverb Examples
- quickly and without warning;
"he stopped suddenly" - 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" - tightly;
"she caught him up short on his lapel" - at a disadvantage;
"I was caught short" - so as to interrupt;
"She took him up short before he could continue" - at some point or distance before a goal is reached;
"he fell short of our expectations" - clean across;
"the car's axle snapped short" - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;
"he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aback | by surprise "taken aback by the caustic remarks" |
| Abbreviate | shorten "Abbreviate `New York'' and write `NY''" |
| Abbreviated | (of clothing) very short "an abbreviated swimsuit" "a brief bikini" |
| Abrasive | a substance that abrades or wears down |
| Abridged | (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting "an abridged version" |
| Abrupt | surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner "an abrupt reply" |
| Abruptly | quickly and without warning "he stopped suddenly" |
| Accidentally | without advance planning "they met accidentally" |
| Accumbent | lying down in a position of comfort or rest |
| Actor | a theatrical performer |
View all cognitive synonyms for Short
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base |
| Horst | a ridge of the earth''s crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land |
View English words with the unique letters used in short. Words With The Letters Horst
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Position | the act of positing an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baseball Team |
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Shorty | No | No |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short (5 letters) | 8 | 7 | short | ||
| Shorts (6 letters) | 9 +1 | 8 +1 | horsst | ||
| Shooter (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | soother | ||
| Throes (6 letters) | 9 +1 | 8 +1 | others | ||
| Borscht (7 letters) | 14 +6 | 15 +8 | bortsch | ||
| Borsht (6 letters) | 11 +3 | 11 +4 | borsht | ||
| Bortsch (7 letters) | 14 +6 | 15 +8 | bortsch | ||
| Earshot (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | earshot | ||
| Horst (5 letters) | 8 | 7 | short | ||
| Shouter (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | shouter | ||
| Suharto (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | suharto | ||
| Souther (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | shouter | ||
| Reshoot (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | soother | ||
| Soother (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | soother | ||
| Shorter (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | ehorrst | ||
| Outrush (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 11 +4 | outrush | ||
| Authors (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | suharto |
Short Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With T
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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