Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
A sheet of stone.
Scarcity; lack.
A small piece or quantity.
A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
Very little, very few.
To fail, or become less; to scantle.
To limit in amount or share; to stint.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
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.
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.
Having a negative position in.
Deficient in.
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).
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.
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.