Small vs. Short

Being below average in size

Having little length; not long.

Being below average in quantity or extent

Having little height; not tall.

Limited in importance or significance; trivial

Extending or traveling not far or not far enough

Having limited position, influence, or status; minor

Lasting a brief time

Unpretentious; modest

Appearing to pass quickly

Not fully grown; very young

Not lengthy; succinct

Narrow in outlook; petty

Rudely brief; abrupt

Having been belittled; humiliated

Easily provoked; irascible

Diluted; weak. Used of alcoholic beverages.

Inadequate; insufficient

Lacking force or volume

Lacking in length or amount

Lowercase

Lacking in breadth or scope

In small pieces

Deficient in retentiveness

Without loudness or forcefulness; softly.

Holding a trading position that is inversely related to the price of a security or index

In a small manner.

Of or relating to a short sale

A part that is smaller or narrower than the rest

Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky

Small things considered as a group.

Not ductile; brittle

Chiefly British Small items of clothing.

(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a speech sound of relatively brief duration, as the first vowel sound in the Latin word mălus, "evil," as compared with the same or a similar sound of relatively long duration, as the first vowel sound in the Latin word mālus, "apple tree."

Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or being a vowel sound in English, such as the vowel sound (ă) in pat or () in put, that is descended from a vowel of brief duration.

(figuratively) Young, as a child.

Being of relatively brief duration. Used of a syllable in quantitative prosody.

Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.

(Slang) Close to the end of a tour of military duty.

Humiliated or insignificant.

Abruptly; quickly

Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

In a rude or curt manner.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

At a point before a given boundary, limit, or goal

Synonym of little

At a disadvantage

(archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.

By means of a short sale

That is small the manufactured size.

(Linguistics) A short syllable, vowel, or consonant.

In a small fashion

A brief film; a short subject.

In or into small pieces.

A size of clothing less long than the average for that size.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

Shorts Short pants extending to the knee or above.

(obsolete) In a low tone; softly.

Shorts Undershorts.

An item labelled or denoted as being that size.

A short sale.

One who fits an item of that size.

One that sells short.

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

Shorts A byproduct of wheat processing that consists of germ, bran, and coarse meal or flour.

To make little or less.

Shorts Clippings or trimmings that remain as byproducts in various manufacturing processes, often used to make an inferior variety of the product.

(intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

A short circuit.

Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

A malfunction caused by a short circuit.

Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

(Baseball) A shortstop.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; - sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

To cause a short circuit in.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

(Informal) To give (one) less than one is entitled to; shortchange.

Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

To short-sell (a security or index).

In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

To short-circuit.

Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

(of a person) Of comparatively small height.

Smallclothes.

Having little duration.

To make little or less.

(followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).

The slender part of the back

That is relatively close to the batsman.

A garment size for a small person

Bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.

Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

That falls short of the green or the hole.

Limited in size or scope;

(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Brittle, crumbly. See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.

Not fully grown;

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

Too small to be seen except under a microscope

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

Not large but sufficient in size or amount;

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.

(of a voice) faint;

Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.

Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope;

(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.

Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth);

(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.

Lowercase;

(finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

Have fine or very small constituent particles;

(by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.

On a small scale;

Of money: given in the fewest possible notes, i.e. those of the largest denomination.

Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

Unawares.

Without achieving a goal or requirement.

Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.

(finance) With a negative ownership position.

A short circuit.

A short film.

A short version of a garment in a particular size.

(baseball) A shortstop.

(finance) A short seller.

(finance) A short sale or short position.

A summary account.

(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.

(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).

To short circuit.

(transitive) 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.

(obsolete) To shorten.

Deficient in.

(finance) Having a negative position in.

Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; - usually with of; as, to be short of money.

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

Not distant in time; near at hand.

Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); - with of.

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

Brittle.

Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; - opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, 22, 30.

A summary account.

The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Short, inferior hemp.

Breeches; shortclothes.

A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

To shorten.

To fail; to decrease.

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

The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

Cheat someone by not returning him enough money

Create a short-circuit in

Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;

Primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;

Low in stature; not tall;

Not sufficient to meet a need;

Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;

Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

Containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;

Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;

Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;

Lacking foresight or scope;

Unwilling to endure;

Quickly aroused to anger;

Most direct;

Marked by rude or peremptory shortness;

Quickly and without warning;

Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;

Clean across;

At some point or distance before a goal is reached;

So as to interrupt;

At a disadvantage;

Tightly;

In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;