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shortest 音標拼音: [ʃ'ɔrtɪst] a. 短的 短的 shortest最短 Short \ Short\, a. [ Compar. { Shorter}; superl. { Shortest}.] [ OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. { Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. [ 1913 Webster] The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. -- Isa. xxviii. 20. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. [ 1913 Webster] The life so short, the craft so long to learn. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] To short absense I could yield. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. [ 1913 Webster] 4. 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. [ 1913 Webster] We shall be short in our provision. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Not distant in time; near at hand. [ 1913 Webster] Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. [ 1913 Webster] Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. -- Rowe. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less ( than); -- with of. [ 1913 Webster] Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] 9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. [ 1913 Webster] 10. ( Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. [ 1913 Webster] 11. ( Metal) Brittle. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ? ot- short; as, cast iron may be hot- short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold- short; as, cast iron may be cold- short, on account of the presence of phosphorus. [ 1913 Webster] 12. ( Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under { Short}, n., and To sell short, under { Short}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer. [ 1913 Webster] 13. ( Phon.) 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, [ sect][ sect] 22, 30. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous self- explaining compounds; as, short- armed, short- billed, short- fingered, short- haired, short- necked, short- sleeved, short- tailed, short- winged, short- wooled, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { At short notice}, in a brief time; promptly. { Short rib} ( Anat.), one of the false ribs. { Short suit} ( Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three. -- R. A. Proctor. { To come short}, { To cut short}, { To fall short}, etc. See under { Come}, { Cut}, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
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