Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 71
Shoot (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. -- Herbert.
Shoot (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. -- Bacon.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. -- Dryden.
Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Well shot in years he seemed. -- Spenser.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. -- Thomson.
Shoot (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. -- Bacon.
Shoot (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. -- Dickens.
Shoot (v. i.) (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, To pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. -- Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. -- Drayton.
Shoot (n.) A young branch or growth.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. -- Evelyn.
Shoot (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
Shoot (n.) (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. -- Knight.
Shoot (n.) (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Shoot (n.) [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
Shoot (n.) A new branch.
Shoot (n.) The act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer."
Shoot (v.) Hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip].
Shoot (v.) Kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip].
Shoot (v.) Fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take].
Shoot (v.) Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance."
Shoot (v.) Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck].
Shoot (v.) Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball."
Shoot (v.) Record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth."
Shoot (v.) Cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg."
Shoot (v.) Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth."
Shoot (v.) Throw dice, as in a crap game.
Shoot (v.) Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away].
Shoot (v.) Score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal."
Shoot (v.) Utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer."
Shoot (v.) Measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star."
Shoot (v.) Produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout].
Shoot (v.) Give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot].
Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
Shooter (n.) That which shoots. Specifically:
Shooter (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter. [Colloq. U.S.]
Shooter (n.) A shooting star. [R.]
Shooter (n.) A large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles [syn: taw, shooter].
Shooter (n.) A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" [syn: shot, shooter].
Shooter (n.) A gambler who throws dice in the game of craps [syn: shooter, crap-shooter].
Shooter (n.) (Sports) A player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket).
Shooter (n.) A professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter].
Shooting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
Shooting (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), A fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.
Shooting box, A small house in the country for use in the shooting season. -- Prof. Wilson.
Shooting gallery, A range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms.
Shooting iron, A firearm. [Slang, U.S.]
Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star.
Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids.
Shooting star. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip ({Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.
Shooting stick (Print.), A tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. -- Hansard.
Shooting (n.) The act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" [syn: shooting, shot].
Shooting (n.) Killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies."
Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. [Prev. Eng.] -- Grose.
Shop () imp. of Shape. Shaped. -- Chaucer.
Shop (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. -- Cowper.
Shop (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop. -- Shak.
Shop (n.) A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
Shop (n.) A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
Shop (n.) Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
Shop (n.) the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloq.]
Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, To indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
To talk shop, To make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]
Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.
Shopped (imp. & p. p.) of Shop.
Shopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shop.
Shop (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. -- Byron.
Shop (n.) A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: shop, store].
Shop (n.) Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop, shop].
Shop (n.) A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop class, shop].
Shop (v.) Do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday."
Shop (v.) Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott].
Shop (v.) Shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: shop, browse].
Shop (v.) Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag].
Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.
Shopbook (n.) (pl. - s) (Dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. -- Locke.
Shopboy (n.) A boy employed in a shop.
Shopen () p. p. of Shape.
Shopfront (n.) [British] 店面 Another term for storefront (sense 1).
‘He stared at the dilapidated shopfronts.’
Shopgirl (n.) A girl employed in a shop.
Shopkeeper (n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Shoplift (v. i.) (v. t.) 冒充顧客在商店內偷竊（商品）Steal in a store.
Shoplifter (n.) 冒充顧客進行偷竊的小偷 One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Shoplifter (n.) A thief who steals goods that are in a store [syn: {booster}, {shoplifter}, {lifter}].
Shoplifting (n.) 商店行竊；shoplift 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.
Shoplifting (n.) The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" [syn: {shoplifting}, {shrinkage}].
Shoplike (a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar.
Shopmaid (n.) A shopgirl.
Shopmen (n. pl. ) of Shopman.
Shopman (n.) A shopkeeper; a retailer.
Shopman (n.) One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
Shopman (n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.
Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Shopper (n.) Someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy.
Shopper (n.) A commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her
Shoppish (a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.
Shoppy (a.) Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]
Shoppy (a.) Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk. [Colloq.] -- Mrs. Gaskell.
Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Shopwalker (n.) One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
Shopwalker (n.) An employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; "a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain" [syn: floorwalker, shopwalker].
Shopwomen (n. pl. ) of Shopwoman.
Shopwoman (n.) A woman employed in a shop.
Shopworn (a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Shopworn (a.) Worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price" [syn: shopworn, shopsoiled].
Shopworn (a.) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn].
Shorage (n.) Duty paid for goods brought on shore. -- Grabb.
Shore () imp. of Shear. -- Chaucer.
Shore (n.) A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also shoar.]
Shored (imp. & p. p.) of Shore.
Shoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shore.
Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
Shore (n.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. -- Shak.
The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. -- Spenser.
In shore, Near the shore. -- Marryat.
On shore. See under On.
Shore birds (Zool.), A collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.
Shore crab (Zool.), Any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.
Shore lark (Zool.), A small American lark ({Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark.
Shore plover (Zool.), A large-billed Australian plover ({Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.
Shore teetan (Zool.), The rock pipit ({Anthus obscurus"> Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit ({Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Shear
Shear (v. t.) [imp. Shearedor Shore; p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. -- Shak.
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear (v. t.) (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shore (v. t.) To set on shore. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Shore (n.) The land along the edge of a body of water.
Shore (n.) A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support [syn: shore, shoring].
Shore (v.) Serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees."
Shore (v.) Arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: land, set ashore, shore].
Shore (v.) Support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop, shore up, shore].
Shore. () Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river, is called the shore. Strictly speaking, however, when the water does not ebb and flow, in a river, there is no shore. See 4 Hill, N. Y. Rep. 375; 6 Cowen, 547; and Seashore.
Shoreless (a.) Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. -- Young.
Shoreling (n.) See Shorling.
Shorer (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
Shoreward (adv.) Toward the shore.
Shoreward (a.) (Of winds) Coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds" [syn: inshore, onshore, seaward, shoreward] [ant: offshore, seaward].
Shoring (n.) The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.
Shoring (n.) A system of props; props, collectively.
Shoring (n.) A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support [syn: shore, shoring].
Shoring (n.) The act of propping up with shores [syn: shoring, shoring up, propping up].
Schorl (n.) (Min.) Black tourmaline. [Written also shorl.]
Shorl (a.) Alt. of Shorlaceous.
Shorlaceous (a.) (Min.) See Schorl, Schorlaceous.
Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]
Shorling (n.) A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Compare: Shear
Shear (v. t.) [imp. Shearedor Shore; p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to
shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. -- Shak.
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear (v. t.) (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shorn () p. p. of Shear.
Shorn (a.) Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn].
Short (a.) 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.
Short (a.) 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.
Short (a.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
Short (a.) 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.
Short (a.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
Short (a.) 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.
Short (a.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. -- Rowe.
Short (a.) 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.
Short (a.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
Short (a.) (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
Short (a.) (Metal) Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short; 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.
Short (a.) (Stock Exchange) 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.
Short (a.) (Phon.) 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, [sect] [sect] 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 (v. t.) To shorten. [Obs.]
Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
Short (n.) A summary account.
The short and the long is, our play is preferred. -- Shak.
Short (n.) pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
The first remove above bran is shorts. -- Halliwell.
Short (n.) pl. Short, inferior hemp.
Short (n.) pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] -- Dickens.
Short (n.) (Phonetics) 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.) 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 (adv.) Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead].
Short (adv.) Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash."
Short (adv.) Clean across; "the car's axle snapped short."
Short (adv.) At some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations."
Short (adv.) So as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue."
Short (adv.) At a disadvantage; "I was caught short" [syn: short, unawares].
Short (adv.) 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" [syn: curtly, short, shortly].
Short (a.) 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" [ant: long].
Short (a.) (Primarily spatial sense) Having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" [ant: long].
Short (a.) Low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [ant: tall].
Short (a.) 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" [syn: inadequate, poor, short].
Short (a.) (Of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory" [syn: unretentive, forgetful, short] [ant: long, recollective, retentive, tenacious].
Short (a.) Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" [ant: long].
Short (a.) Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short" [ant: long].
Short (a.) Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" [syn: light, scant(p), short].
Short (a.) Lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic].
Short (a.) Tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust."
Short (a.) Marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" [syn: brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)].
Short (n.) The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed.
Short (n.) Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference [syn: short circuit, short].
Short (n.) The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base [syn: shortstop, short].
Short (v.) Cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn: short-change, short].
Short (v.) Create a short circuit in [syn: short-circuit, short].
Short, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 328
Housing Units (2000): 143
Land area (2000): 23.781084 sq. miles (61.592721 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.059329 sq. miles (0.153662 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 23.840413 sq. miles (61.746383 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67400
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.573047 N, 94.506071 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Short, OK
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Shortage (n.) 缺少，不足，匱乏 [U] [C] ；不足額（或量）[C] Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
Shortage (n.) The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall].
Shortage (n.) An acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage].
Short-breathed (a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
Short-breathed (a.) Having short life.
Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
Shortcake (n.) Very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream.
Short circuit () (Elec.) A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
Short circuit (n.) Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference [syn: short circuit, short].
Short-circuited (imp. & p. p.) of Short-circuit.
Short-circuiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circuit.
Short-circuit (v. t.) (Elec.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
Shortclothes (n.) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.