| noun | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
| noun | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| noun | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
| verb | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| verb | create a short circuit in |
| adjective | primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration “a short life” |
| adjective | (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length “short skirts” |
| adjective | low in stature; not tall “he was short and stocky” |
| adjective | not sufficient to meet a need “an inadequate income” |
| adjective | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range “a short memory” |
| adjective | not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices “a short sale” |
| adjective | of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration “the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short” |
| adjective | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so “a light pound” |
| adjective | lacking foresight or scope “a short view of the problem” |
| adjective | tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening “shortbread is a short crumbly cookie” |
| adjective | marked by rude or peremptory shortness “try to cultivate a less brusque manner” |
| adverb | quickly and without warning “he stopped suddenly” |
| adverb | without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold “he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash” |
| adverb | clean across “the car's axle snapped short” |
| adverb | at some point or distance before a goal is reached “he fell short of our expectations” |
| adverb | so as to interrupt “She took him up short before he could continue” |
| adverb | at a disadvantage “I was caught short” |
| adverb | in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner “he told me curtly to get on with it” |
| short | verb | create a short circuit in |
| short | noun | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| shortness | noun | the property of being of short temporal extent |
| inadequateness | noun | unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate |
| poorness | noun | the quality of being meager; -George Eliot |
| forgetfulness | noun | tendency to forget |
| scantness | noun | the quality of being meager; -George Eliot |
| shortsightedness | noun | a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources |
| brusqueness | noun | an abrupt discourteous manner |
| curtness | noun | an abrupt discourteous manner |