什么是 short?
- Having little length; not long.
- Having little height; not tall.
- Extending or traveling not far or not far enough: a short toss.
- Lasting a brief time: a short holiday.
- Appearing to pass quickly: finished the job in a few short months.
- Not lengthy; succinct: short and to the point.
- Rudely brief; abrupt.
- Easily provoked; irascible.
- Inadequate; insufficient: oil in short supply; were short on experience.
- Lacking in length or amount: a board that is short two inches.
- Lacking in breadth or scope: a short view of the problem.
- Deficient in retentiveness: a short memory.
- Not owning the stocks or commodities one is selling in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- Of or relating to a short sale.
- Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky: a short pie crust.
- Not ductile; brittle: short iron.
- Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a speech sound of relatively brief duration, as the first vowel sound in the Latin word mălus, "evil,” as compared with the same or a similar sound of relatively long duration, as the first vowel sound in the Latin word mālus, "apple tree.”
- Grammar Of, relating to, or being a vowel sound in English, such as the vowel sound (ă) in pat or (o͝o) in put, that is descended from a vowel of brief duration.
- Unstressed; unaccented. Used of a syllable in accentual prosody.
- Being of relatively brief duration. Used of a syllable in quantitative prosody.
- Slang Close to the end of a tour of military duty.
- Abruptly; quickly: stop short.
- In a rude or curt manner.
- At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal: a missile that landed short of the target.
- At a disadvantage: We were caught short by the sudden storm.