Word Meanings - BITTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

• Short-circuiting
  of Short-circuit
• Shortness
  The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness
• Short-circuit
  To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
• Shortsighted
  Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
• SHORTCIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Shortclothes
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• Short-spoken
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Anythingarian
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten

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