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In short

Short \Short\, n.

  1. A summary account.

    The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
    --Shak.

  2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

    The first remove above bran is shorts.
    --Halliwell.

  3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.

  4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang]
    --Dickens.

  5. (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, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs.
    --H. Sweet.

    In short, in few words; in brief; briefly.

    The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up.

    The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver.

Wiktionary
in short

prep.phr. As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.

WordNet
in short

adv. in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: concisely, briefly, shortly, in brief]

Usage examples of "in short".

He smiled widely and nodded stupidly, and managed to begin breathing again, in short gasps.

Kalas in short order, and he will sweep out to the west, securing all the land.

The jailor held up one hand to fend any forthcoming blows, and shook his head with fright, his breath coming in short and raspy gasps.

Aydrian approached Palmaris even as I sailed, and we have reason to believe that the city was overrun in short order.

The swift ship came right beside her in short order, but the wounded woman only kept walking, oblivious to it, and oblivious to the gasps of those who loved her at the rail, all of them shaken to their core by the sight of her devastated form.

Prince Midalis might seize complete control of the seas in short order.

He had retaken the nearly deserted Pireth Tulme in short order, and had avoided all the traps they had set about the coastline below St.

But with gas and tires in short supply, taxis might as well have been swept off the street.

Schneider seemed convinced the band he ledwith everything from officers to weapons to organization in short supply, slapping a more formally military name than that on it was optimistichad done something important.

First thing I did was to shower - something I usually had to be asked to do - then I dressed in shorts, T-shirt and sandals.