leg vs short

leg

noun
  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. 

  • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. 

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

  • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. 

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. 

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

short

noun
  • A short version of a garment in a particular size. 

  • A short sound, syllable, or vowel. 

  • A short film. 

  • A shortstop. 

  • A short seller. 

  • An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles. 

  • A short circuit. 

  • A short sale or short position. 

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

  • A summary account. 

verb
  • To shortchange. 

  • To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. 

  • 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. 

  • To short circuit. 

  • To cause a short circuit in (something). 

adj
  • Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant. 

  • bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman. 

  • Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered. 

  • Having little duration. 

  • that falls short of the green or the hole. 

  • Of comparatively small height. 

  • Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty. 

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

  • Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.) 

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

  • that is relatively close to the batsman. 

  • Undiluted; neat. 

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

  • Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking. 

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

  • Doubtful of, skeptical of. 

adv
  • Unawares. 

  • Abruptly, curtly, briefly. 

  • Without achieving a goal or requirement. 

  • With a negative ownership position. 

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

prep
  • Having a negative position in. 

  • Deficient in. 

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