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 |
Peasant's Revolt
Great Revolt | a widespread rebellion in against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England, suppressed by Richard II |
| great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
blue shark
great blue shark
Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
great bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis | large bowerbird of northern Australia |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus | brown North American horned owl |
great grey owl
great gray owl
Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
great blue heron
Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
great bustard
Otis tarda | largest European land bird |
great snipe
woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
great skua
Catharacta skua | large brown skua of the northern Atlantic |
great auk
Pinguinus impennis | large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts, extinct |
great crested grebe
Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
| Great Dane | very large powerful smoothoated breed of dog |
| Great Pyrenees | bred of large heavyoated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland |
small civet
Viverricula indica
Viverricula malaccensis | a common civet of southeast Asia |
short-horned grasshopper
acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
small white
Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
vein
nervure | one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect |
great ape
pongid | any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae |
great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda | large (up to ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish, may be dangerous to swimmers |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
firearm
piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
| great hall | the principal hall in a castle or mansion, can be used for dining or entertainment |
| great seal | the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty |
| Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
Pyramid
Great Pyramid
Pyramids of Egypt | a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides, begun by Cheops around BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt |
| 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 |