Definitions of short:

• noun:   the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
• noun:   the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
• noun:   accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
• verb:   cheat someone by not returning him enough money
• verb:   create a short-circuit in
• adjective:   primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length

  Example: "Short skirts"

• adjective:   primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

  Example: "A short life"

• adjective:   of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
• adjective:   not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

  Example: "A short sale"

• adjective:   unwilling to endure

  Example: "She was short with the slower students"

• adjective:   lacking foresight or scope

  Example: "A short view of the problem"

• adjective:   (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

  Example: "A short memory"

• adjective:   used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
• adjective:   low in stature; not tall

  Example: "His was short and stocky"

• adjective:   containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes

  Example: "Shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"

• adjective:   most direct

  Example: "Took the shortest and most direct route to town"

• adjective:   not sufficient to meet a need

  Example: "Money is short"

• adjective:   less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

  Example: "Regularly gives short weight"

• adjective:   quickly aroused to anger
• adverb:   tightly

  Example: "She caught him up short on his lapel"

• adverb:   at a disadvantage

  Example: "I was caught short"

• adverb:   so as to interrupt

  Example: "She took him up short before he could continue"

• adverb:   at some point or distance before a goal is reached

  Example: "He fell short of our expectations"

• adverb:   clean across

  Example: "The car's axle snapped short"

• adverb:   without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

  Example: "He made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

• adverb:   in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

  Example: "He talked short with everyone"

• adverb:   quickly and without warning
• name:  A surname (common: 1 in 4761 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #550)