Usually means: Less than average in height.
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We found 66 dictionaries that define the word short:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. short: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. short: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short: Vocabulary.com
  6. Short, short: Wordnik
  7. short, short-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Short, short: Wiktionary
  9. short: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. short: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. short: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. short, short (or short position), the short: Dictionary.com
  13. short (adj.), short (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. short: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SHORT, Short (TV series), Short (film), Short (finance), Short (surname), Short: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Short: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. short: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. short: Rhymezone
  19. short, short (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. short: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Short: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. short: Free Dictionary
  23. short: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Short, short: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. short: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. short: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. short: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. SHORT: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Short: bizterms.net
  7. Short: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Short: Harvey Financial
  10. Short: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  11. Short: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  12. Short: Inflation Glossary
  13. Short: Investopedia
  14. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  15. Short: Securities Terminology
  16. Short (disambiguation), short: Legal dictionary
  17. Short (disambiguation), Short (finance), Short: Financial dictionary
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  19. Short: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short (disambiguation), short: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Short (finance), short: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SHORT: Acronym Finder
  3. short: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. short, short, short, short, short: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Short: 1960's Slang
  4. Short: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Short: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. short: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See shorted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
adjective:  (of a person) Of comparatively small height.
adjective:  Having little duration.
adjective:  (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
adjective:  (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
adjective:  (cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
adjective:  (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
adjective:  (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
adjective:  (baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
adjective:  Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
adjective:  Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
adjective:  Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
adjective:  Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
adjective:  (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
adjective:  (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
adjective:  (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adjective:  (finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.
adverb:  Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
adverb:  Unawares.
adverb:  Without achieving a goal or requirement.
adverb:  (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
adverb:  (finance) With a negative ownership position.
noun:  A short circuit.
noun:  A short film.
noun:  A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.
noun:  A short version of a garment in a particular size.
noun:  (baseball) A shortstop.
noun:  (finance) A short seller.
noun:  (finance) A short sale or short position.
noun:  A summary account.
noun:  (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
noun:  (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
noun:  (US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
verb:  (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
verb:  (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
verb:  (transitive) To shortchange
verb:  (transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
verb:  (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
verb:  (obsolete) To shorten.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States.

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