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  1. adjective Having little length; not long.
  2. adjective Having little height; not tall.
  3. adjective Extending or traveling not far or not far enough: a short toss.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sceort, scort; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from short, adjective
  2. from Middle English shorten, schorten, from Anglo-Saxon sceortian (=OFries. korta, kerta, kirta =D. korten =Middle Low German korten =Old High German curzen, kurzen, kürzen, Middle High German sehürzen, kürzen, German kürzen =Swedish korta =Danish korte), become short, from sceort, short: see short, n.
 

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/ʃɔrt/
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