Cold-short
(a.) Brittle when cold |
Hot-short
(a.) More or less brittle when heated |
Red-short
(a.) Hot-short |
Repeat
(v. t.) To go over again |
Repeat
(v. t.) To make trial of again |
Repeat
(v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received). |
Repeat
(n.) The act of repeating |
Repeat
(n.) That which is repeated |
Repeat
(n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance. |
Sequence
(n.) The state of being sequent |
Sequence
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect |
Sequence
(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy |
Sequence
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale |
Sequence
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher |
Sequence
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. |
Sequence
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value |
Sequence
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit |
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 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 |
| simple mastectomy | removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact |
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 |
succession
sequence | the action of following in order, he played the trumps in sequence |
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-built-for-two
tandem bicycle
tandem | a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats |
hand glass
simple microscope
magnifying glass | light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image, the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in |
| machine simple machine | a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point |
sequence
episode | film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie |
| 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 |
| simple pendulum | a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length |
stop bath
short-stop
short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
| tandem trailer | trucking rig with two trailers in tandem |
| simplicity simpleness simple mindedness | a lack of penetration or subtlety, they took advantage of her simplicity |
sequence
chronological sequence
succession
successiveness
chronological succession | a following of one thing after another in time, the doctor saw a sequence of patients |
| tandem | an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another |
short bone
os breve | a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions |
simple eye
stemma
ocellus | an eye having a single lens |
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 |
regression
simple regression
regression toward the mean
statistical regression | the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) |
| simple sentence | a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses |
| 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 |
repeat
repetition | an event that repeats, the events today were a repeat of yesterday's |
| sequence | several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys |
| simple harmonic motion | periodic motion in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement |
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 |