Short vs. Stout

Shortadjective

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

Stoutadjective

Large; bulky.

Shortadjective

(of a person) Of comparatively little height.

Stoutadjective

(obsolete) Bold, strong-minded.

Shortadjective

Having little duration; opposite of long.

‘Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long.’;

Stoutadjective

(obsolete) Proud; haughty.

Shortadjective

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

‘“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible".’;

Stoutadjective

Firm; resolute; dauntless.

Shortadjective

that is relatively close to the batsman.

Stoutadjective

Materially strong, enduring.

‘Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.’;

Shortadjective

that bounced relatively far from the batsman.

Stoutadjective

Obstinate.

Shortadjective

that falls short of the green or the hole.

Stoutnoun

(beer) A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.

‘Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.’;

Shortadjective

(of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.

Stoutnoun

An obese person.

Shortadjective

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

‘He gave a short answer to the question.’;

Stoutnoun

A large clothing size.

Shortadjective

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

‘a short supply of provisions’;

Stoutnoun

Gnat.

Shortadjective

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.

‘to be short of money’; ‘The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.’;

Stoutnoun

Gadfly.

Shortadjective

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

‘an account which is short of the truth’;

Stoutadjective

Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.

‘With hearts stern and stout.’; ‘A stouter champion never handled sword.’; ‘He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.’; ‘The lords all standTo clear their cause, most resolutely stout.’;

Shortadjective

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

Stoutadjective

Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.

‘Your words have been stout against me.’; ‘Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.’;

Shortadjective

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

‘I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.’;

Stoutadjective

Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

Shortadverb

Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

‘They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.’; ‘He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.’; ‘The boss got a message and cut the meeting short.’;

Stoutadjective

Large; bulky; corpulent.

Shortadverb

Unawares.

‘The recent developments at work caught them short.’;

Stoutnoun

A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.

Shortadverb

Without achieving a goal or requirement.

‘His speech fell short of what was expected.’;

Stoutnoun

a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops

Shortadverb

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

Stoutnoun

a garment size for a large or heavy person

Shortadverb

(finance) With a negative ownership position.

‘We went short most finance companies in July.’;

Stoutadjective

dependable;

‘the stalwart citizens at Lexington’; ‘a stalwart supporter of the UN’; ‘stout hearts’;

Shortnoun

A short circuit.

Stoutadjective

euphemisms for `fat';

‘men are portly and women are stout’;

Shortnoun

A short film.

Stoutadjective

having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships;

‘hardy explorers of northern Canada’; ‘proud of her tall stalwart son’; ‘stout seamen’; ‘sturdy young athletes’;

Shortnoun

Used to indicate a short-length version of a size

‘38 short suits fit me right off the rack.’; ‘Do you have that size in a short.’;

Stout

Stout is a dark, top-fermented beer with a number of variations, including dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout, and imperial stout. The first known use of the word stout for beer, in a document dated 1677 found in the Egerton Manuscripts, referred to its strength.

Shortnoun

(baseball) A shortstop.

‘Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.’;

Shortnoun

(finance) A short seller.

‘The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.’;

Shortnoun

(finance) A short sale.

‘He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.’;

Shortnoun

A summary account.

Shortnoun

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

Shortnoun

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

Shortverb

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

Shortverb

(intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

Shortverb

(transitive) To shortchange.

Shortverb

(transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

‘This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.’;

Shortverb

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.

Shortverb

(obsolete) To shorten.

Shortpreposition

Deficient in.

‘We are short a few men on the second shift.’; ‘He's short common sense.’;

Shortpreposition

(finance) Having a negative position in.

‘I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.’;

Shortadjective

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.’;

Shortadjective

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

‘The life so short, the craft so long to learn.’; ‘To short absense I could yield.’;

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

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.’;

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

Not distant in time; near at hand.

‘Marinell was sore offendedThat his departure thence should be so short.’; ‘He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.’;

Shortadjective

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

‘Their own short understandings reachNo farther than the present.’;

Shortadjective

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.’;

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

Brittle.

Shortadjective

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.

Shortadjective

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.

Shortnoun

A summary account.

‘The short and the long is, our play is preferred.’;

Shortnoun

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

‘The first remove above bran is shorts.’;

Shortnoun

Short, inferior hemp.

Shortnoun

Breeches; shortclothes.

Shortnoun

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.’;

Shortadverb

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.’;

Shortverb

To shorten.

Shortverb

To fail; to decrease.

Shortnoun

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

Shortnoun

accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

Shortnoun

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

Shortverb

cheat someone by not returning him enough money

Shortverb

create a short-circuit in

Shortadjective

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

‘a short life’; ‘a short flight’; ‘a short holiday’; ‘a short story’; ‘only a few short months’;

Shortadjective

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

‘short skirts’; ‘short hair’; ‘the board was a foot short’; ‘a short toss’;

Shortadjective

low in stature; not tall;

‘his was short and stocky’; ‘short in stature’; ‘a short smokestack’;

Shortadjective

not sufficient to meet a need;

‘an inadequate income’; ‘a poor salary’; ‘money is short’; ‘on short rations’; ‘food is in short supply’; ‘short on experience’;

Shortadjective

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

‘a short sale’; ‘short in cotton’;

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

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

‘shortbread is a short crumbly cookie’; ‘a short flaky pie crust’;

Shortadjective

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

‘a light pound’; ‘a scant cup of sugar’; ‘regularly gives short weight’;

Shortadjective

used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

Shortadjective

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;

‘a short memory’;

Shortadjective

lacking foresight or scope;

‘a short view of the problem’; ‘shortsighted policies’; ‘shortsighted critics derided the plan’; ‘myopic thinking’;

Shortadjective

unwilling to endure;

‘she was short with the slower students’;

Shortadjective

quickly aroused to anger;

‘a hotheaded commander’;

Shortadjective

most direct;

‘took the shortest and most direct route to town’;

Shortadjective

marked by rude or peremptory shortness;

‘try to cultivate a less brusque manner’; ‘a curt reply’; ‘the salesgirl was very short with him’;

Shortadverb

quickly and without warning;

‘he stopped suddenly’;

Shortadverb

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold;

‘he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash’;

Shortadverb

clean across;

‘the car's axle snapped short’;

Shortadverb

at some point or distance before a goal is reached;

‘he fell short of our expectations’;

Shortadverb

so as to interrupt;

‘She took him up short before he could continue’;

Shortadverb

at a disadvantage;

‘I was caught short’;

Shortadverb

tightly;

‘she caught him up short on his lapel’;

Shortadverb

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner;

‘he told me curtly to get on with it’; ‘he talked short with everyone’; ‘he said shortly that he didn't like it’;

Shortadjective

measuring a small distance from end to end

‘short dark hair’; ‘a short flight of steps’; ‘the bed was too short for him’;

Shortadjective

(of a journey) covering a small distance

‘the hotel is a short walk from the sea’;

Shortadjective

(of a garment or sleeves on a garment) only covering the top part of a person's arms or legs

‘a short skirt’;

Shortadjective

(of a person) small in height

‘he is short and tubby’;

Shortadjective

(of a ball in cricket, a shot in tennis, etc.) travelling only a small distance before bouncing

‘he uses his opportunities to attack every short ball’;

Shortadjective

denoting fielding positions relatively close to the batsman

‘short midwicket’;

Shortadjective

lasting or taking a small amount of time

‘visiting London for a short break’; ‘a short conversation’;

Shortadjective

seeming to last less time than is the case; passing quickly

‘in 10 short years all this changed’;

Shortadjective

(of a person's memory) retaining things for only a small amount of time

‘he has a short memory for past misdeeds’;

Shortadjective

(of stocks or other securities or commodities) sold in advance of being acquired, with reliance on the price falling so that a profit can be made.

Shortadjective

(of a broker, position in the market, etc.) buying or based on short stocks or other securities or commodities.

Shortadjective

denoting or having a relatively early date for the maturing of a bill of exchange.

Shortadjective

relatively small in extent

‘he wrote a short book’; ‘a short speech’;

Shortadjective

not having enough of (something); lacking or deficient in

‘I know you're short on cash’; ‘they were very short of provisions’;

Shortadjective

in insufficient supply

‘food is short’;

Shortadjective

(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).

Shortadjective

(of a vowel or syllable) having the lesser of the two recognized durations.

Shortadjective

(of a person) terse; uncivil

‘he was often sharp and rather short with her’;

Shortadjective

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

‘they have been backed at short odds to win thousands of pounds’;

Shortadjective

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

Shortadjective

(of clay) having poor plasticity.

Shortadverb

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

‘you go deep and you go short’;

Shortadverb

not as far as the point aimed at; not far enough

‘all too often you pitch the ball short’;

Shortnoun

a drink of spirits served in a small measure.

Shortnoun

a short film as opposed to a feature film.

Shortnoun

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

‘her call was two longs and a short’;

Shortnoun

a short circuit.

Shortnoun

a person who sells short.

Shortnoun

short-dated stocks.

Shortnoun

a mixture of bran and coarse flour.

Shortverb

short-circuit or cause to short-circuit

‘the electrical circuit had shorted out’; ‘if the contact terminals are shorted, the battery quickly overheats’;

Shortverb

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

‘the rule prevents sellers from shorting a stock unless the last trade resulted in a price increase’;