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Wiktionary

  1. As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. in few words; in brief; briefly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a concise manner; in a few words

Examples

  • “Her soft gray-streaked hair fell in short curls around her face; she looked like an older version of Joanne Woodward.”

    Simon & Schuster: Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter

  • “Vitamins which act as co-factors may be in short supply.”

    Simon & Schuster: Alcohol and The Addictive Brain

  • “He was still there, my silver knight, flirting with some fallen Guinivere in short shorts and a cropped T.”

    Simon & Schuster: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

  • “Sybaris is ringed by hills, but if they camped there the rebels would have run out of food in short order.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

  • “Thalassemias in which the alpha chain is in short supply usually lead to less severe anemia than when the amount of beta chain is deficient.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Edge of Evolution

  • “I mean the Depreciation of the Continental Currency, the Enormous Pay of our army, the immense expense at which they are supplied . . . and in short the extravagance that has prevailed in most departments of the public service have called forth prodigious emissions of Paper money, both Continental and Colonial. . .”

    Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

  • “But even that turned sour; he was still a mumbler in the classroom, and his lectures, which were filled to overflowing at first, were reduced to a handful in short order.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

  • “Her breaths came in short puffs, not from overexertion, as her regular workouts at the gym left her lungs plenty strong enough to take on this minor physical effort.”

    Simon & Schuster: I.O.U.

  • “Not too much later, the Mondales and Geraldine appeared—the women, I might add, in short silk dresses although the rest of us were in formal clothes.”

    Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

  • “As I anticipated, Lisa wins the argument in short order, though she is forced to employ her powerful and controlling and rarely resorted-to Money Trick.”

    Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

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