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short sale / short selling: sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)
short covering: the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale
whist / long whist / short whist: a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six
shortstop / short: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
nap / catnap / cat sleep / forty winks / short sleep / snooze: sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
short division: the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren / Cistothorus platensis: small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows
harrier eagle / short-toed eagle: any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles
short-tailed shrew / Blarina brevicauda: North American shrew with tail less than half its body length
German short-haired pointer: liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany, / pointer and / bloodhound
short-horned grasshopper / acridid: grasshopper with short antennae
short: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
short circuit / short: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
short iron: an iron with a short shaft and pitched face, for hitting short high shots
short line: a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances
short pants / shorts / trunks: trousers that end at or above the knee
short sleeve: a sleeve extending from the shoulder to the elbow
stop bath / short-stop / short-stop bath: an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer
short bone / os breve: a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
short gastric artery / arteria gastrica breves / vasa brevis: several small arteries branching off of the splenic artery and going to the greater curvature of the stomach
short saphenous vein: a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee
short-term memory / STM / immediate memory: what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
short story: a prose narrative shorter than a novel
short list / shortlist: a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
short subject: a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature
note short letter / line billet: a short personal letter, "drop me a line when you get there"
short account: the aggregate of short sales on an open market
arietta / short aria: a short aria
short shrift / summary treatment: a brief and unsympathetic rejection, "they made short shrift of my request"
short order: an order for food that can be prepared quickly
irascibility / short temper / spleen / quick temper / a: a feeling of resentful anger
chuck short ribs: between the chuck and the brisket
short ribs: cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum
Pepin / Pepin III / Pepin the Short| king of the Franks and father of Charlemagn:
short wave: a radio wave with a wavelength less than / meters (a frequency greater than megahertz)
shortleaf pine / short-leaf pine / shortleaf yellow pine / Pinus echinata: large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of - and red-brown bark when mature
/ Short's aster / Aster shortii: perennial of southeastern United States having usually blue flowers
short-spurred fragrant orchid / Gymnadenia odoratissima: similar to Gymnadenia conopsea but with smaller flowers on shorter stems and having much shorter spurs
shortgrass / short-grass: any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions, common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
hundredweight cwt short hundredweight / centner cental / quintal: a United States unit of weight equivalent to / pounds
short ton / ton net ton: a United States unit of weight equivalent to / pounds
short account: a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)
short-staple cotton: cotton with relatively short fibers
bypass / short-circuit / go_around get_around: avoid something unpleasant or laborious, "You cannot bypass these rules "
short-circuit / short: create a short circuit in
short-circuit: hamper the progress of, impede, "short-circuit warm feelings"
short-change / short: cheat someone by not returning him enough money
short-handed / short-staffed / undermanned / understaffed: inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc., "they're rather short-handed at the moment", "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"
short-beaked / short-billed: having a short beak
short-haired: with short hair, "a short-haired dog"
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