Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold |
Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year |
Hot-short (a.) More or less brittle when heated |
Red-short (a.) Hot-short |
Sea term () A term used specifically by seamen |
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 |
Term (n.) That which limits the extent of anything |
Term (n.) The time for which anything lasts |
Term (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students |
Term (n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits |
Term (n.) A fixed period of time |
Term (n.) The limitation of an estate |
Term (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. |
Term (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. |
Term (n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition |
Term (n.) A word or expression |
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 |
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 |
terminus terminal figure term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
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 |
long-term memory LTM | your general store of remembered information |
term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
short story | a prose narrative shorter than a novel |
term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
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 |
term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
condition term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement, the contract set out the conditions of the lease, the terms of the treaty were generous |
arietta short aria | a short aria |
slang slang expression slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
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 |
term infant | infant born at a gestational age between and completed weeks |
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 |