English Dictionary

short

noun

A short circuit. / A short film. / A short version of a garment in a particular size. / (baseball) A shortstop. / (finance) A short seller. / (finance) A short sale or short position.

Be careful not to touch the wires together, or it may cause a short circuit.

意味（1）

A short circuit.

意味（2）

A short film.

Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

意味（3）

A short version of a garment in a particular size.

38 short suits fit me right off the rack.

意味（4）

(baseball) A shortstop.

Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.

意味（5）

(finance) A short seller.

The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.

意味（6）

(finance) A short sale or short position.

He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.

意味（7）

A summary account.

For the short and the long is, our play is preferred.

意味（8）

(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in ‘bit’ and ‘beat’, ‘not’ and ‘naught’, we find that the short vowels are generally wide (i, ɔ), the long narrow (i, ɔ), besides being generally diphthongic as well.

意味（9）

(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

意味（10）

(US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.

For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.