Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold |
Haul (v. t.) To pull or draw with force |
Haul (v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen |
Haul (v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t. |
Haul (v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. |
Haul (n.) A pulling with force |
Haul (n.) A single draught of a net |
Haul (n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net. |
Haul (n.) Transportation by hauling |
Haul (n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred. |
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 |
draw haul haulage | the act of drawing or hauling something, the haul up the hill went very slowly |
long haul | a journey over a long distance, it's a long haul from New York to Los Angeles |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
hundredweight cwt short hundredweight centner cental quintal | a United States unit of weight equivalent to pounds |
short ton ton net ton | a United States unit of weight equivalent to pounds |
catch haul | the quantity that was caught, the catch was onlyfish |
short account | a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own) |
short-staple cotton | cotton with relatively short fibers |
long run long haul | a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out, in the long run we will win, in the long run we will all be dead, he performed well over the long haul |
clip curtail cut short | terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent, My speech was cut short, Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries |
truncate cut short | make shorter as if by cutting off, truncate a word, Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains |
cut short break short break off | interrupt before its natural or planned end, We had to cut short our vacation |