Big vs. Short — What's the Difference?

Of considerable size or extent

Measuring a small distance from end to end

Of considerable importance or seriousness

Lasting or taking a small amount of time

Generous

Relatively small in extent

Praise or recommend something highly

(of a vowel) categorized as short with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard British English the vowel /ʊ/ in good is short as distinct from the long vowel /uː/ in food).

The major league in a professional sport

(of a person) terse; uncivil

Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.

(of odds or a chance) reflecting or representing a high level of probability

Having great strength or force

(of pastry) containing a high proportion of fat to flour and therefore crumbly.

Of great significance; momentous

(chiefly in sport) at, to, or over a relatively small distance

Mature or grown-up

A drink of spirits served in a small measure.

Older or eldest. Used especially of a sibling

A short film as opposed to a feature film.

Filled up; brimming over

A short sound such as a short signal in Morse code or a short vowel or syllable

Bountiful; generous

A short circuit.

Pregnant

A person who sells short.

Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence

A mixture of bran and coarse flour.

Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent

Short-circuit or cause to short-circuit

Loud and firm; resounding

Sell (stocks or other securities or commodities) in advance of acquiring them, with the aim of making a profit when the price falls

(Informal) Widely liked, used, or practiced; popular

Having little length; not long.

(Informal) Self-important; cocky

Having little height; not tall.

In a pretentious or boastful way

Extending or traveling not far or not far enough

With considerable success

Lasting a brief time

In a thorough or unmistakable way; emphatically

Appearing to pass quickly

Of great size, large.

Not lengthy; succinct

(informal) Fat.

Rudely brief; abrupt

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

Easily provoked; irascible

(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

Inadequate; insufficient

(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.

Lacking in length or amount

Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.

Lacking in breadth or scope

.informal Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.

Deficient in retentiveness

(informal) Important or significant.

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

Popular.

Of or relating to a short sale

(of a city) Populous.

Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky

(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns

Not ductile; brittle

Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.

(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."

Enthusiastic (about).

(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.

In a loud manner.

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

In a boasting manner.

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

In a large amount or to a large extent.

Abruptly; quickly

On a large scale, expansively.

In a rude or curt manner.

Hard.

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

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

At a disadvantage

(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.

By means of a short sale

(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).

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

(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.

A brief film; a short subject.

One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

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

To inhabit; occupy.

Shorts Short pants extending to the knee or above.

To locate oneself.

Shorts Undershorts.

To build; erect; fashion.

A short sale.

To dwell; have a dwelling.

One that sells short.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

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

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; - often figuratively.

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

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

A short circuit.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

A malfunction caused by a short circuit.

To build.

(Baseball) A shortstop.

Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

To cause a short circuit in.

Significant;

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

Of very great significance;

To short-sell (a security or index).

Conspicuous in position or importance;

To short-circuit.

Very intense;

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

Loud and firm;

(of a person) Of comparatively small height.

Prodigious;

Having little duration.

(of animals) fully developed;

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

Marked by intense physical force;

That is relatively close to the batsman.

Feeling self-importance;

Bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.

Older brother or sister;

That falls short of the green or the hole.

Exhibiting self-importance;

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

Generous and understanding and tolerant;

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

Given or giving freely;

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

In an advanced stage of pregnancy;

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

Extremely well;

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

In a boastful manner;

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

On a grand scale;

(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.

In a major way;

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

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

(by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.

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;