Attention
(n.) The act or state of attending or heeding |
Attention
(n.) An act of civility or courtesy |
Cold-short
(a.) Brittle when cold |
Hot-short
(a.) More or less brittle when heated |
Red-short
(a.) Hot-short |
Short
(superl.) Not long |
Short
(superl.) Not extended in time |
Short
(superl.) Limited in quantity |
Short
(superl.) Insufficiently provided |
Short
(superl.) Deficient |
Short
(superl.) Not distant in time |
Short
(superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp |
Short
(superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful |
Short
(superl.) Abrupt |
Short
(superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth |
Short
(superl.) Brittle. |
Short
(superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed |
Short
(adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance |
Short
(n.) A summary account. |
Short
(n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. |
Short
(n.) Short, inferior hemp. |
Short
(n.) Breeches |
Short
(n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. |
Short
(adv.) In a short manner |
Short
(v. t.) To shorten. |
Short
(v. i.) To fail |
Short-breathed
(a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration. |
Short-breathed
(a.) Having short life. |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuited
(imp. & p. p.) of Short-circuit |
Short-circuiting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circuit |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
Short-dated
(a.) Having little time to run from the date. |
Short-handed
(a.) Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. |
Short-jointed
(a.) Having short intervals between the joints |
Short-lived
(a.) Not living or lasting long |
Short-spoken
(a.) Speaking in a quick or short manner |
Short-waisted
(a.) Having a short waist. |
Short-winded
(a.) Affected with shortness of breath |
Short-wited
(a.) Having little wit |
Span
() imp. & p. p. of Spin. |
Span
(v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended |
Span
(v. t.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time. |
Span
(v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports. |
Span
(v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight |
Span
(v. t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together |
Span
(v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object |
Span
(v. t.) To reach from one side of to the order |
Span
(v. t.) To fetter, as a horse |
Span
(v. i.) To be matched, as horses. |
short sale
short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
| short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
straddle
span | the act of sitting or standing astride |
whist
long whist
short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
| care attention aid tending | the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something, no medical care was required, the old car needs constant attention |
shortstop
short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
nap
catnap
cat sleep
forty winks
short sleep
snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
| attention | a courteous act indicating affection, she tried to win his heart with her many attentions |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
short-horned grasshopper
acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
bridge
span | a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. |
| short | the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed |
short circuit
short | accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference |
| short iron | an iron with a short shaft and pitched face, for hitting short high shots |
| short line | a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances |
short pants
shorts
trunks | trousers that end at or above the knee |
| short sleeve | a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
| attention | a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together, assumed by military personnel during drill or review, the troops stood at attention |
| span | the distance or interval between two points |
short bone
os breve | a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions |
short gastric artery
arteria gastrica breves
vasa brevis | several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach |
| short saphenous vein | a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee |
| attention | the faculty or power of mental concentration, keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention |
attention
attending | the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others |
| attention span | the length of time you can concentrate on some idea or activity |
attentiveness
heed
regard paying attention | paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people), his attentiveness to her wishes, he spends without heed to the consequences |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
center centre center of attention
centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
| attention | a general interest that leads people to want to know more, She was the center of attention |
| short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
short list
shortlist | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
note short letter
line billet | a short personal letter, drop me a line when you get there |
| short account | the aggregate of short sales on an open market |
arietta
short aria | a short aria |
short shrift
summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
| short order | an order for food that can be prepared quickly |
irascibility
short temper
spleen
quick temper | a feeling of resentful anger |
| chuck short ribs | between the chuck and the brisket |
| short ribs | cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum |
Pepin
Pepin III
Pepin the Short | king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in (-) |
| short wave | a radio wave with a wavelength less than meters (a frequency greater than megahertz) |
shortleaf pine
short-leaf pine
shortleaf yellow pine
Pinus echinata | large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of - and red-brown bark when mature |
Short's aster
Aster shortii | perennial of southeastern United States having usually blue flowers |
short-spurred fragrant orchid
Gymnadenia odoratissima | similar to Gymnadenia conopsea but with smaller flowers on shorter stems and having much shorter spurs |