In a rude or curt manner At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal A missile that landed short of the target We were caught short by the sudden storm. Small in length, distance, or height Used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…
Short, brief are opposed to long, and indicate slight extent or duration Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations If you are short of something or if it is short, you do not have enough of it If you are running short of something or if it is running short, you do not have much of it left. The adjective short describes things that aren't long when you measure them, or have a small distance from one end to another, like your short hair or the short walk to the library. Extending a small distance from one end to the other end having little length not long
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