Little vs. Short

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Littleadjective

Small in size.

Littleadjective

Insignificant, trivial.

Littleadjective

(offensive) Used to belittle a person.

Littleadjective

Very young.

Littleadjective

(of a sibling) Younger.

Littleadjective

Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.

Littleadjective

Small in amount or number, having few members.

Littleadjective

Short in duration; brief.

Littleadjective

Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

Littleadverb

Not much.

Littleadverb

Not at all.

Littledeterminer

Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).

Littlepronoun

Not much; not a large amount.

Littlenoun

The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.

Littleadjective

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; - opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.

Littleadjective

Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.

Littleadjective

Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water.

Littleadjective

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible.

Littleadjective

Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight; inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little care or diligence.

Littleadjective

Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

Littlenoun

That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like.

Littlenoun

A small degree or scale; miniature.

Littleadverb

In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; - often with a preceding it.

Littlenoun

a small amount or duration;

Littleadjective

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

Littleadjective

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some;

Littleadjective

of short duration or distance;

Littleadjective

not fully grown;

Littleadjective

(informal terms) small and of little importance;

Littleadjective

(of a voice) faint;

Littleadjective

younger brother or sister;

Littleadjective

lowercase;

Littleadjective

small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context);

Littleadverb

not much;

Littleadjective

small in size, amount, or degree (often used to convey an appealing diminutiveness or express an affectionate or condescending attitude)

Littleadjective

(of a person) young or younger

Littleadjective

denoting something, especially a place, that is the smaller or smallest of those so named or is named after a similar larger one

Littleadjective

used in names of animals and plants that are smaller than related kinds, e.g. little grebe.

Littleadjective

of short distance or duration

Littleadjective

relatively unimportant or trivial (often used ironically)

Littledeterminer

a small amount of

Littledeterminer

a short time or distance

Littledeterminer

used to emphasize how small an amount is

Littlepronoun

a small amount of

Littlepronoun

used to emphasize how small an amount is

Littlepronoun

Littlepronoun

a short time or distance

Littleadverb

to a small extent

Littleadverb

only to a small extent; not much or often (used for emphasis)

Littleadverb

hardly or not at all

Shortadjective

Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

Shortadjective

(of a person) Of comparatively little height.

Shortadjective

Having little duration; opposite of long.

Shortadjective

(followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).

Shortadjective

that is relatively close to the batsman.

Shortadjective

that bounced relatively far from the batsman.

Shortadjective

that falls short of the green or the hole.

Shortadjective

(of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.

Shortadjective

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

Shortadjective

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

Shortadjective

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.

Shortadjective

Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.

Shortadjective

(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.

Shortadjective

Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

Shortadverb

Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

Shortadverb

Unawares.

Shortadverb

Without achieving a goal or requirement.

Shortadverb

Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.

Shortadverb

(finance) With a negative ownership position.

Shortnoun

A short circuit.

Shortnoun

A short film.

Shortnoun

Used to indicate a short-length version of a size

Shortnoun

(baseball) A shortstop.

Shortnoun

(finance) A short seller.

Shortnoun

(finance) A short sale.

Shortnoun

A summary account.

Shortnoun

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

Shortnoun

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

Shortverb

(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).

Shortverb

(intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

Shortverb

(transitive) To shortchange.

Shortverb

(transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

Shortverb

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.

Shortverb

(obsolete) To shorten.

Shortpreposition

Deficient in.

Shortpreposition

(finance) Having a negative position in.

Shortadjective

Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

Shortadjective

Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

Shortadjective

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Shortadjective

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; - usually with of; as, to be short of money.

Shortadjective

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

Shortadjective

Not distant in time; near at hand.

Shortadjective

Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

Shortadjective

Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); - with of.

Shortadjective

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

Shortadjective

Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

Shortadjective

Brittle.

Shortadjective

Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

Shortadjective

Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; - opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, 22, 30.

Shortnoun

A summary account.

Shortnoun

The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Shortnoun

Short, inferior hemp.

Shortnoun

Breeches; shortclothes.

Shortnoun

A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

Shortadverb

In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

Shortverb

To shorten.

Shortverb

To fail; to decrease.

Shortnoun

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

Shortnoun

accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

Shortnoun

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

Shortverb

cheat someone by not returning him enough money

Shortverb

create a short-circuit in

Shortadjective

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;

Shortadjective

primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;

Shortadjective

low in stature; not tall;

Shortadjective

not sufficient to meet a need;

Shortadjective

not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;

Shortadjective

of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

Shortadjective

containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;

Shortadjective

less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;

Shortadjective

used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

Shortadjective

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;

Shortadjective

lacking foresight or scope;

Shortadjective

unwilling to endure;

Shortadjective

quickly aroused to anger;

Shortadjective

most direct;

Shortadjective

marked by rude or peremptory shortness;

Shortadverb

quickly and without warning;

Shortadverb

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;

Shortadverb

clean across;

Shortadverb

at some point or distance before a goal is reached;

Shortadverb

so as to interrupt;

Shortadverb

at a disadvantage;

Shortadverb

tightly;

Shortadverb

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;

Shortadjective

measuring a small distance from end to end

Shortadjective

(of a journey) covering a small distance

Shortadjective

(of a garment or sleeves on a garment) only covering the top part of a person's arms or legs

Shortadjective

(of a person) small in height

Shortadjective

(of a ball in cricket, a shot in tennis, etc.) travelling only a small distance before bouncing

Shortadjective

denoting fielding positions relatively close to the batsman

Shortadjective

lasting or taking a small amount of time

Shortadjective

seeming to last less time than is the case; passing quickly

Shortadjective

(of a person's memory) retaining things for only a small amount of time

Shortadjective

(of stocks or other securities or commodities) sold in advance of being acquired, with reliance on the price falling so that a profit can be made.

Shortadjective

(of a broker, position in the market, etc.) buying or based on short stocks or other securities or commodities.

Shortadjective

denoting or having a relatively early date for the maturing of a bill of exchange.

Shortadjective

relatively small in extent

Shortadjective

not having enough of (something); lacking or deficient in

Shortadjective

in insufficient supply

Shortadjective

(of a vowel) categorized as short with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard British English the vowel /ʊ/ in good is short as distinct from the long vowel /uː/ in food).

Shortadjective

(of a vowel or syllable) having the lesser of the two recognized durations.

Shortadjective

(of a person) terse; uncivil

Shortadjective

(of odds or a chance) reflecting or representing a high level of probability

Shortadjective

(of pastry) containing a high proportion of fat to flour and therefore crumbly.

Shortadjective

(of clay) having poor plasticity.

Shortadverb

(chiefly in sport) at, to, or over a relatively small distance

Shortadverb

not as far as the point aimed at; not far enough

Shortnoun

a drink of spirits served in a small measure.

Shortnoun

a short film as opposed to a feature film.

Shortnoun

a short sound such as a short signal in Morse code or a short vowel or syllable

Shortnoun

a short circuit.

Shortnoun

a person who sells short.

Shortnoun

short-dated stocks.

Shortnoun

a mixture of bran and coarse flour.

Shortverb

short-circuit or cause to short-circuit

Shortverb

sell (stocks or other securities or commodities) in advance of acquiring them, with the aim of making a profit when the price falls

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