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n. சுருக்கம், குறுக்கம், சுருங்கிய அளவு, மணிச்செறிவு, குறில், குற்றுயிரொலி, குற்றசை, குறிற் குறி, குற்றுயிரொலி அடையாளம், (பே-வ) மின்வலியின் குறுக்கு வெட்டுப்பாய்வு, (பெ.) குறுகிய, நீளங் குறைந்த, குட்டையான, உயரங் குறைந்த, குள்ளமான, குறுகலான, இடங்குறுகிய, குறைந்த இடர்பரப்புடைய, காலங்குறுகிய, தொலை விளைவற்ற, உடனடி விளைவுடைய, குறுகிய கால எல்லையுடைய, சிறிது நேரத்தில் கடக்கக்கூடிய, அணித்தான, சிறிதுகாலமே பிடிக்கிற, விரைவில் செய்து முடிக்கத்தக்க, சுருங்கிய, குறைந்த அளவான, விரிவற்ற, சுருக்கமான, மணிச்செறிவான, ஏடு வகையில் குறைந்த பக்கங்களையுடைய, பத்திவகையில் குறைந்த வரிகளையுடைய, வாசக வகையில் குறைந்த சொற்களைக் கொண்ட, சிறுதிறம் வாய்ந்த, தாமதமற்ற, சோர்வு தட்டாத, இயல்பான எல்லையிற் குறைந்த, எதிர்பார்த்ததில் குறைந்த, நேரான, சில சொல்லே சொல்லுகிற, சுற்றிவளைக்காத, வெடுக்கென்ற, நறுக்கென்ற, சுருக்கென்ற, வெட்டொன்று துண்டிரண்டான, எளிதில் உதிர்ந்துவிடக்கூடிய, பொடிந்துவிடுகிற, உறுதியற்ற, மின்குறுக்குவெட்டான, மின்வலி வகையில் தடையாற்றல் குறைந்த பக்கமான, எழுத்தொலி வகையில் குறிலான, மாத்திரையிற்குறைந்த, (பே-வ) அசை வகையில் அழுத்தம் பெறாத, பங்குக்கள வகையில் கையிருப்பின்றி விற்கப்பட்ட, வருங்காலக் கையிருப்பு எதிர்நோக்கி விற்கப்படுகிற, (வினை.) மின்வலிவகையில் குறுக்குவெட்டாகப் பாய்வுறு, (வினையடை.) சட்டென, திடுமென, சுருக்காக, எதிர்பாராமல், எதிர்பார்த்த சமயத்துக்கு முன்பாகவே, மொட்டையாக, சிறிதும் தும்புவிடாமல், அருகேயுள்ள பக்கத்தில், இடையிட்டு.

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Short, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] Etym: [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. The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. Isa. xxviii. 20. 2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Chaucer. To short absense I could yield. Milton. 3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. 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. We shall be short in our provision. Shak. 5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. 6. Not distant in time; near at hand. Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. Spenser. He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. Clarendon. 7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. Rowe. 8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. Landor. 9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. 10. (Cookery) Defn: Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. 11. (Metal) Defn: Brittle. Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ; 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. 12. (Stock Exchange) Defn: 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. 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. 13. (Phon.) Defn: 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. 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. 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. Short, n. 1. A summary account. The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. 2. pl. Defn: The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. The first remove above bran is shorts. Halliwell. 3. pl. Defn: Short, inferior hemp. 4. pl. Defn: Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] Dickens. 5. (Phonetics) Defn: A short sound, syllable, or vowel. If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and "naught," we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs. H. Sweet. In short, in few words; in brief; briefly. -- The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up. -- The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver. Short, adv. Defn: In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate. Short, v. t. Etym: [AS. sceortian.] Defn: To shorten. [Obs.] Short, v. i. Defn: To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]