short

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Any film between 0-49 minutes will classify as a short, anything thereafter will classify as a feature.

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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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Examples (35)

  • Grimes said the last time he saw his hair this short was at Navy basic training. —  Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories
  • A rare short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), also known as the short-eared fox or the short-eared zorro, is captured on an Ecuadorian Amazon rain forest camera trap intended for jaguars in a picture —  Cryptomundo
  • Of all the pieces in the program, this short is already so close to a full-length film in terms of everything except its running time that I can't imagine that its director, —  GreenCine Daily
  • Until recently, the short was all most film fans had to go on, and even that was hard to come by until The Criterion Collection released it alongside —  Cinema Strikes Back - Covering the World of Film
  • Let us hope that the short will be attached to screenings in other cities, too -- or, failing that, that it will be included as a bonus feature on the Variety —  FilmChat
 

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long ·  small ·  full

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short:   Short ·  shorter ·  shortest ·  shorts
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Etymologies (3)

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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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