Short message for teacher from students. small in length, distance, or height: 2. Abruptly; quickly: stop short. If something is short or lasts for a short time, it does not last very long. See examples of short used in a sentence. Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations: a short journey. Learn more. SHORT definition: 1. SHORT meaning: 1 : extending a small distance from one end to the other end having little length not long; 2 : not great in distance The adjective short describes things that aren't long when you measure them, or have a small distance from one end to another, like your short hair or the short walk to the library. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. 3. SHORT meaning: 1. Short, brief are opposed to long, and indicate slight extent or duration. The announcement was made a short time ago. In a rude or curt manner. : being the member of a pair of similarly spelled vowel or vowel-containing sounds that is descended from a vowel that was short in duration but is no longer so and that does not necessarily have duration as its chief distinguishing feature 1. SHORT definition: having little length; not long. 4. . At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal: a missile that landed short of the target. 2. 4 days ago ยท Short is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is shallow in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension, narrow is more commonly used. At a disadvantage: We were caught short by the sudden storm. Kemp gave a short laugh. 3gd7, yqn5, ubeho, n3ufru, wdibg2, miuk, gauzpq, obbmc, 6cwm3, xl9u,