Short

The word short has more than one meaning: Template:Wiktionarypar

The common meaning of being small in length or height or time.
- A person who is abnormally short is said to have dwarfism.
In electrical engineering and electronics, it is an abbreviation for short circuit.
In finance, the holder of a short position in a security, such as a stock, owes the security, whereas the holder of a short position in a futures contract has the obligation to sell the underlying at a forward date.
Short films are referred to commonly as "shorts".
The Short Brothers were British aviation pioneers.
Walter C. Short was the US Army General in command at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked in 1941
In computer science, short integer is a common datatype.
To have a short time remaining in some period of service, e.g. to have a short period of time left in military service before being honorably discharged ("I'm out in three days - I'm so short I can get hurt falling off a dime!")