Short vs. Crisp — What's the Difference?

Measuring a small distance from end to end

(of a substance) firm, dry, and brittle

Lasting or taking a small amount of time

(of the weather) cool, fresh, and invigorating

Relatively small in extent

(of a way of speaking) briskly decisive and matter-of-fact, without hesitation or unnecessary detail

(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).

A wafer-thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack.

(of a person) terse; uncivil

A dessert of fruit baked with a crunchy topping of brown sugar, butter, and flour

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

Give (food) a crisp surface by placing it in an oven or under a grill

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

Curl (something) into short, stiff, wavy folds or crinkles

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

Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle

A drink of spirits served in a small measure.

Pleasingly firm and fresh

A short film as opposed to a feature film.

Bracing; invigorating

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

Lively; sprightly

A short circuit.

Conspicuously clean or new

A person who sells short.

Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness

A mixture of bran and coarse flour.

Having small curls, waves, or ripples. Used of hair.

Short-circuit or cause to short-circuit

To make or keep crisp.

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

To become or remain crisp.

Having little length; not long.

Something crisp or easily crumbled

Having little height; not tall.

A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping

Extending or traveling not far or not far enough

Chiefly British A potato chip.

Lasting a brief time

(of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.

Appearing to pass quickly

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.

Not lengthy; succinct

Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.

Rudely brief; abrupt

(of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.

Easily provoked; irascible

(of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.

Inadequate; insufficient

(of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.

Lacking in length or amount

(of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.

Lacking in breadth or scope

(obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.

Deficient in retentiveness

(dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.

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

(obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.

Of or relating to a short sale

(comptheory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.

Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky

(British) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.

Not ductile; brittle

A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping

(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."

(food) Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.

(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.

(transitive) To make crisp.

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

(intransitive) To become crisp.

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

To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).

Abruptly; quickly

To become curled.

In a rude or curt manner.

To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.

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

To undulate or ripple.

At a disadvantage

To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).

By means of a short sale

To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).

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

To interweave (of the branches of trees).

A brief film; a short subject.

To make a sharp or harsh sound.

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

To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).

Shorts Short pants extending to the knee or above.

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Shorts Undershorts.

Curled with the ripple of the water.

A short sale.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.

One that sells short.

Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.

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

Lively; sparking; effervescing.

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

Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.

A short circuit.

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

A malfunction caused by a short circuit.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.

(Baseball) A shortstop.

To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.

To cause a short circuit in.

That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

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

A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

To short-sell (a security or index).

Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface;

To short-circuit.

Make brown and crisp by heating;

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

(of something seen or heard) clearly defined;

(of a person) Of comparatively small height.

Tender and brittle;

Having little duration.

Pleasantly cold and invigorating;

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

Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed;

That is relatively close to the batsman.

In small tight curls

Bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.

Brief and to the point; effectively cut short;

That falls short of the green or the hole.

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

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

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

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

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

(colloquial) Undiluted; neat.

(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;