short
/ʃoɹt/ sustantivo A2En español: cortocircuito, cortometraje, corto
- A short circuit. · The circuit breaker keeps tripping because there's a short in the wiring.
- A short film.
- A short-form vertical video.
- A vertical video of any length. · long short
- A short version of a garment in a particular size. · 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.· Do you have that size in a short?
- A shortstop. · Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.
- A short seller. · The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- A short sale or short position. · He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
Plural shorts
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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The field mouse, now that it was freed from its enemy, stopped short; and coming slowly up to the Woodman it said, in a squeaky little voice:
On the very threshold she stopped short, wheeled about, came back and sat down by the table, light and glow as effectually blotted out as if some one had clapped an extinguisher on her.
“Upon my word,” cried the old man, “you make short work of this kind of affair.
The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.
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