Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold |
Cycle (n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens |
Cycle (n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order |
Cycle (n.) An age |
Cycle (n.) An orderly list for a given time |
Cycle (n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. |
Cycle (n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire |
Cycle (n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. |
Cycle (v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes |
Cycle (v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
bicycle bike wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
pedicab cycle rickshaw | a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling), used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs |
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 |
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 |
short-term memory STM immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
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 |
cycle of rebirth | (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms |
cycle oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon, a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons |
cardiac cycle | the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next, an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles, the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram |
Carnot cycle Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
cycle | a periodically repeated sequence of events, a cycle of reprisal and retaliation |
business cycle trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
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 |
cycle | a series of poems or songs on the same theme, Schubert's song cycles |
Pepin Pepin III Pepin the Short | king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in (-) |
food web food cycle | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
life cycle | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
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 |
shortgrass short-grass | any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions, common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains |