(uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief. / (countable) The result or product of being short. / (uncountable) The property of being short or terse.

difficulty in breathing; dyspnea

A dessert made using a sweet biscuit-like cake and topped with strawberries and/or a strawberry-flavored sauce.

(nautical) A shore towards which the wind is blowing, and to which there is the danger of being driven.

In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking. / Facing the shore.

Toward the shore.

The side facing the shore.

(idiomatic) A strict set of rules, or great scrutiny or oversight which limit one's freedom of action.

Alternative spelling of short circuit

(computing) A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning true if the first operand evaluates as true, without evaluating the second operand).