Word Meanings - SHORTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

• Short-breathed
  Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
• Shorthorn
  One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Shortcake
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• Short-jointed
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORTLIVED
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• Short circuit
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Short-lived
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• SHORTSPOKEN
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]
• Short-circuited
  of Short-circuit
• SHORTWAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• 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
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• 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.

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