He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
such presumptuous language. --Howell.
[1913 Webster]
{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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Short — Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short — bezeichnet Short Brothers (Flugzeughersteller), ein ehemaliger britischer Flugzeughersteller Short Brothers (Werft), eine ehemaliger britische Werft in der Mathematik als Short Format einen Begriff der Gleitkommaarithmetik, siehe IEEE 754 FP… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short — may refer to: * Short (surname) * Holly Short, a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short (finance), stock trading status * Short film, a cinema… … Wikipedia
Short S.23 — Empire Sho … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short S.8 — Calcutta … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short — Short, n. 1. A summary account. [1913 Webster] The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. [1913 Webster] The first remove above bran is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short S. 23 — Short S.23 Empire Typ … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short — Short, v. t. [AS. sceortian.] To shorten. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short — Short, v. i. To fail; to decrease. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short C-23 — Shorts C 23 Sherpa, die militärische Variante der Shorts 330 Die Short 330 (auch Shorts 330) ist ein Kurzstrecken Passagier und Frachtflugzeug des ehemaligen britischen Flugzeugherstellers Short Brothers. Inhaltsverzeichnis … Deutsch Wikipedia
