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adj
- lasting a very short time
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
adv
adj
noun
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- euphemistic expressions for death
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the end of something
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
prep_phrase
noun
- A very short amount of time.
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
noun
- a limited period of time
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- (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
verb
adj
- Lasting for a short time only.
- Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
- Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
- Relating to or denoting time or tense.
- Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
- Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
noun
noun
- A very short moment of time.
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
- The chaffinch.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
- A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
- A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
verb
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noun
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
adv
prefix
phrase
adj
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- 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.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
noun
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A small amount.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
pron
adv
det
adj
- Having little duration.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- 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.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adv
- Unawares.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
prep
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- 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.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a particular point in time
- at this time
- having important effects or influence
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- an instance of some kind
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small fragment
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
noun
- an indefinitely short time
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- a particular point in time
- following the first in an ordering or series
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a speech seconding a motion
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adv
adj
verb
verb
adj
noun
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Urgent.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
verb
noun
noun
adv
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
noun
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
adj
- Complete before the next morning.
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.
verb
adj
noun
- That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
verb
adv
adj
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Young, as a child.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- That is small (the manufactured size).
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
noun
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- One who fits an item of that size.
- One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
- An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
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