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adj
- Short.
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
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noun
verb
- (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
- (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To sob with convulsions.
- (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- (transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- refuse to acknowledge
- reject outright and bluntly
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
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det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
prefix
adj
- short
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
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adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
noun
verb
noun
- A short period.
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
verb
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
adj
- brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- tender and brittle
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of hair) in small tight curls
- pleasantly cold and invigorating
- pleasingly firm and fresh
- (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- (wine) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
- Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
- Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.
- Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
- Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.
- Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
noun
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- (originally US, also figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
- (Ireland, UK, by extension) Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
- (Ireland, UK, chiefly in the plural) In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
verb
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make brown and crisp by heating
- (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
- (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
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- a rotund individual
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
- A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
- (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
- (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
- (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
- (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
- (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”).
- (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
- (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
adv
adj
- Having little duration.
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
noun
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
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verb
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
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noun
- (uncountable, nautical) The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
- (countable, aviation) An act of flight.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
- an instance of traveling by air
verb
adj
noun
- a short note
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
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- (nautical) Squat effect.
- (mining) A small vein of ore.
- A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- The angel shark (genus Squatina).
- A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
- (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
- (slang, Canada, US) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.
- A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
- (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
- A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
- a small worthless amount
- the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
- exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
verb
- (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
- To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
- (Internet) To cybersquat.
- To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
- (slang, board games) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.
- To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- to perform the squat weightlifting exercise
- be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
- sit on one's heels
- occupy (a dwelling) illegally
verb
- become short or shorter
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- make short or shorter
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
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- (team sports) Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.
- (poker, of a table) Having fewer than the standard number of players.
- Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
- Having less than a quorum.
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- cut short
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
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- the end of something
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- the motion of one object relative to another
- euphemistic expressions for death
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- (sociology) The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
- (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
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adj
- lasting a very short time
- of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- (music) Intermediate.
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
noun
- one who stays for only a short time
- (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
- (Philippines) A homestay.
- Something that is transient.
- A homeless person.
- (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
- (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
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verb
- shorten
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
- (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
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noun
- A short period.
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
verb
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
noun
- a short note
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
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- become short or shorter
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- make short or shorter
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
verb
- cut short
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
verb
- shorten
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
- (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
adj
adv
adj
- (team sports) Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.
- (poker, of a table) Having fewer than the standard number of players.
- Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
- Having less than a quorum.
verb
adj
- Short.
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
- (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To sob with convulsions.
- (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- (transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- refuse to acknowledge
- reject outright and bluntly
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
adj
- short
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
noun
verb
adj
- brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- tender and brittle
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of hair) in small tight curls
- pleasantly cold and invigorating
- pleasingly firm and fresh
- (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- (wine) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
- Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
- Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.
- Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
- Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.
- Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
noun
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- (originally US, also figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
- (Ireland, UK, by extension) Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
- (Ireland, UK, chiefly in the plural) In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
verb
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make brown and crisp by heating
- (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
- (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
adj
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- a rotund individual
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
- A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
- (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
- (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
- (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
- (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
- (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
- (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”).
- (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
- (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
adv
adj
- Having little duration.
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
noun
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
prep
verb
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
adj
noun
- (uncountable, nautical) The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
- (countable, aviation) An act of flight.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
- an instance of traveling by air
verb
adj
adj
noun
- (nautical) Squat effect.
- (mining) A small vein of ore.
- A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- The angel shark (genus Squatina).
- A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
- (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
- (slang, Canada, US) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.
- A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
- (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
- A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
- a small worthless amount
- the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
- exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
verb
- (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
- To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
- (Internet) To cybersquat.
- To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
- (slang, board games) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.
- To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- to perform the squat weightlifting exercise
- be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
- sit on one's heels
- occupy (a dwelling) illegally
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- the end of something
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- the motion of one object relative to another
- euphemistic expressions for death
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- (sociology) The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
- (sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- (law) The act of approving a bill etc.
adv
verb
adj
- lasting a very short time
- of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
- Occasional; isolated; one-off
- (music) Intermediate.
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
- (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
noun
- one who stays for only a short time
- (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
- (Philippines) A homestay.
- Something that is transient.
- A homeless person.
- (programming) A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
- (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.