{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ʃɔrt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.\nCognate with shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”), Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically." }, { "mean": "(of a person) Of comparatively small height." }, { "mean": "Having little duration.\nAntonym: long\n2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 172:Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.\nOur meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long." }, { "mean": "(followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).\n\"Phone\" is short for \"telephone\" and \"asap\" short for \"as soon as possible\"." }, { "mean": "(cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman." }, { "mean": "(cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman." }, { "mean": "(golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole." }, { "mean": "(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered." }, { "mean": "(baking, of pastries, metallurgy) Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)\n2013, Heston Blumenthal, Historic Heston, →ISBN, page 122:I chose to interpret the references to butter and sugar as indicating that a short pastry was required. (Later editions suggest a biscuit-like texture.)" }, { "mean": "Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.\nHe gave a short answer to the question." }, { "mean": "Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.\na short supply of provisions" }, { "mean": "Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.\nto be short of money\nI'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.\nThe cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift." }, { "mean": "Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.\nan account which is short of the truth\n1829, Walter Savage Landor, “The Emperor Alexander and Capo D'Istria”, in Imaginary Conversations, volume IV: the people are worn down with taxes, and hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.\n1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son\n“There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum \n2003, Linda Chaikin, Desert Rose\nDelance raised his beer and watched Hoadly throw down another swig of hard stuff. \"Take it short if you want to make it over the mountain tonight.\"" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:Marinell was sore offended / That his departure thence should be so short.\n1702–1704, Edward Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.\n1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A Millar, , →OCLC:\nBut, alas! he who escapes from death is not pardoned; he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a short day." }, { "mean": "(finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.\nCoordinate term: long\nshort position\nI'm short in General Motors because I think their sales are plunging." }, { "mean": "(by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of." }, { "mean": "(finance, dated) Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.\nAntonym: long\n1909, James Blyth, The member for Easterby (page 296)\nHe pulled a cheque-book from his pocket, and drew for two hundred thousand pounds. “I'll take it short,” he said" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Abruptly, curtly, briefly.\nThey had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.\nHe cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.\nThe boss got a message and cut the meeting short." }, { "mean": "Unawares.\nThe recent developments at work caught them short." }, { "mean": "Without achieving a goal or requirement.\nHis speech fell short of what was expected." }, { "mean": "(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full." }, { "mean": "(finance) With a negative ownership position.\nWe went short most finance companies in July." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A short circuit." }, { "mean": "A short film.\n2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift\nPreceded 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." }, { "mean": "A short version of a garment in a particular size.\n38 short suits fit me right off the rack.\nDo you have that size in a short?" }, { "mean": "(baseball) A shortstop.\nJones smashes a grounder between third and short." }, { "mean": "(finance) A short seller.\nThe market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne." }, { "mean": "(finance) A short sale or short position.\nHe closed out his short at a modest loss after three months." }, { "mean": "A summary account.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :For the short and the long is, our play is preferred." }, { "mean": "(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.\n1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, page 18: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." }, { "mean": "(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long." }, { "mean": "(US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.\n1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)\nFor 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.\n1982, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Career Criminal Life Sentence Act of 1981: Hearings (page 87)\n list of all crimes reported by these 61 daily criminals during their years on the street is: theft (this includes shoplifting; \"cracking shorts\", burglary and other forms of stealing), dealing, forgery, gambling, confidence games (flim-flam, etc.)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something)." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To shortchange." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.\nThis is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us." }, { "mean": "(transitive, business) 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." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To shorten." } ] }, { "name": "Preposition", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Deficient in.\nWe are short a few men on the second shift.\nHe's short common sense." }, { "mean": "(finance) Having a negative position in.\nI don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, verb, or preposition short\ncold short, cold-short\nfor short\nhot short, hot-short\nin short\nshort back and sides\nshort circuit, short-circuit\nshort end of the stick\nshort filename, short file name\nshort for\nShort Heath\nshort of\nshort of breath\nshort pants\nshort pass\nshort pull\nshort sell, short-sell\nshort short\nshort short story\nshort shrift\nshort squeeze\nshort strokes\nshort twentieth century\nshort wave, shortwave\nshort-arse\nshort-change, shortchange\nshort-distance\nshort-haul\nshort-sea shipping\nshort-sheet\nshort-tempered\nshortbread\nshortcake\nshorten\nshortfall\nshortgevity\nshorthand\nshortie\nshortline, short line\nshortly\nshortness\nshorty\nthe long and short\nthree stops short of Dagenham" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "전치사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }