Short vs. Wide
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
Wideadjective
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Wideadjective
Large in scope.
Wideadjective
(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
Wideadjective
On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Wideadjective
Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
Wideadjective
Vast, great in extent, extensive.
Wideadjective
Remote; distant; far.
Wideadjective
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
Wideadjective
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
Wideadverb
extensively
Wideadverb
completely
Wideadverb
away from a given goal
Wideadverb
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Widenoun
(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
Wideadjective
Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.
Wideadjective
Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
Wideadjective
Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.
Wideadjective
Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.
Wideadjective
Remote; distant; far.
Wideadjective
Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.
Wideadjective
On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
Wideadjective
Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; - opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of ē (ēve) is ĭ (ĭll); of ā (āte) is ĕ (ĕnd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 13-15.
Wideadjective
Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points.
Wideadverb
To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.
Wideadverb
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
Wideadverb
So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.
Widenoun
That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.
Widenoun
That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.
Wideadjective
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other;
Wideadjective
broad in scope or content;
Wideadjective
(used of eyes) fully open or extended;
Wideadjective
very large in expanse or scope;
Wideadjective
great in degree;
Wideadjective
great in range or scope;
Wideadjective
having ample fabric;
Wideadjective
not on target;
Wideadverb
with or by a broad space;
Wideadverb
to the fullest extent possible;
Wideadverb
far from the intended target;
Wideadverb
to or over a great extent or range; far;
Wideadjective
of great or more than average width
Wideadjective
(after a measurement and in questions) from side to side
Wideadjective
open to the full extent
Wideadjective
considerable
Wideadjective
including a great variety of people or things
Wideadjective
spread among a large number of people or over a large area
Wideadjective
considering or dealing with the more general aspects of a situation, issue, etc.
Wideadjective
extending over the whole of
Wideadjective
at a considerable or specified distance from an intended point or target
Wideadjective
(especially in soccer) at or near the side of the field
Wideadverb
to the full extent
Wideadverb
far from a particular or intended point or target
Wideadverb
(especially in football) at or near the side of the field
Widenoun
a ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play, for which an extra is awarded to the batting side.
