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Noun short has 3 senses
- short - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
--1 is a kind of trousers, pants; tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel; trousers, pants; tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--1 is a part of baseball diamond, diamond, infield
--1 has particulars: Bermuda shorts, Jamaica shorts; hot pants; lederhosen
- short circuit, short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
--2 is a kind of underpants; contact, tangency; underpants; contact, tangency
--2 is a part of circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
- shortstop, short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
--3 is a kind of position; position
--3 is a member of baseball team
Verb short has 2 senses
- short-change, short - cheat someone by not returning him enough money
--1 is one way to victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- short-circuit, short - create a short-circuit in
--2 is one way to make, create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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