English Dictionary

short

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃɔːt/

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語

A short circuit. / A short film. / A short version of a garment in a particular size. / (baseball) A shortstop. / (finance) A short seller. / (finance) A short sale or short position.

日本語の意味

電気回路のショート（短絡）を指す。 / 短編映画の略称としてのショート。 / 服の中で、短いバージョンを意味する。例えば、ショートパンツのように短いサイズの衣服。 / 野球でショート（遊撃手）の略称。 / 金融分野で、空売りを行う投資家やその取引を指す。

We discovered a short in the fuse box that caused the lights to go out.

ヒューズボックスの配線が短絡して、照明が消えたことがわかった。

意味（1）

A short circuit.

意味（2）

A short film.

Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

意味（3）

A short version of a garment in a particular size.

38 short suits fit me right off the rack.

意味（4）

(baseball) A shortstop.

Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.

意味（5）

(finance) A short seller.

The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.

意味（6）

(finance) A short sale or short position.

He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.

意味（7）

A summary account.

For the short and the long is, our play is preferred.

意味（8）

(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in ‘bit’ and ‘beat’, ‘not’ and ‘naught’, we find that the short vowels are generally wide (i, ɔ), the long narrow (i, ɔ), besides being generally diphthongic as well.

意味（9）

(programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

意味（10）

(US, slang) An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.

For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.

shorts （ plural ）