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ترجمات رئيسية
short adj (length) من ناحية الطولقصير
 Please hand me the short rope.
 الرجاء ناولني الحبل القصير.
short, shorts npl (clothing) بنطلون قصيرشورت
 I'll wear shorts and sandals since it's hot today.
 سألبس الشورط والصندل بما أن الطقس حار اليوم.
short adj (distance) من ناحية مسافةقصير
 It's only a short walk from here.
 إنه يقع على بعد مسافة قصيرة من هنا يمكن وصولها مشيًا.
short adj (height) من ناحية ارتفاعقصير
 The boy is too short to reach.
 الولد أقصر من أن يصل.
short adj (time) من ناحية الوقتقصير
 That movie was very short.
 ان الفيلم كان قصيرًا للغاية.
short adv (on the near side of a target) على اطراف الهدفعابراً
 The arrow fell short.
 سقط السهم عابرًا
short adv (insufficient)غير كافٍ
 The cashier came up short.
 الصرّاف كان غير كافٍ
 
ترجمات إضافية
short adj (abrupt)خشونة
 She addressed me in a short manner.
 خاطبتني بخشونة
short adj (succinct)فظ
 I didn't appreciate his short manner with me.
short adj (concise)مختصر
 Her speech was short and to the point.
 كلن حديثها مختصراً وفي صلب الموضوع.
short adj (too small)قصير
 The model wore a short skirt.
short adj (insufficient amount)ناقص
 غير كاف
 We're short on printer ink.
short adj (finance: of a short sale)قصير الأجل
 He held a short position on the stock.
short adj (phonetics)قصير
 The short vowels are common in English.
short adj (of a small drink)صغير
 I'd like a short cocktail, please.
short adv (suddenly)فجأة
 The sight of the accident made us stop short.
 توقفنا فجأة عند رؤية الحادث
short adv (except)ما عدا
 I don't know what to do, short of leaving.
short adv (baseball: position)مركز في لعبة البيسبول
 The outfielders were playing short.
short n (gist)الخلاصة
 The long and the short of it is that I'm pregnant.
short n (cinema: brief film)فلم قصير
 Bill produced a short that won a prize.
 أنتج بيل فيلماً قصيراً حاز على جائزة.
short n (electricity: short circuit)قصر كهربائي
 Crossed wires produced a short in the system.
short n (garment size)مقياس لباس
 My coat is a forty-two short.
short n (baseball: position)مركز في لعبة البيسبول
 Daniels is playing third, while James is at short.
short vi (short circuit)قصر كهربائي
 The entire circuit shorted out.
short vtr (short circuit)يقصر كهربائياً
 Dripping water shorted the fuse box.
short vtr (to sell shares short)يبيع بخسارة
 He shorted the stock because he thought the value was going to fall.
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صيغ مركبة
cut short vtr (interrupt, finish prematurely)يختصر، يقطع الحديث
 The sprained ankle caused us to cut short the vacation.
fall short vi (not be satisfactory)غير كافٍ
 The boy's grades fell short of his father's expectations.
fall short vi (not be sufficient)ناقص
 I fell short in my sales numbers, so I need to work harder.
 The amount of water in the reservoir falls short of our targets this year.
for a short time adv (briefly)باختصار
 He had only lived in the apartment for a short time, about 2 weeks.
in a short time adv (soon)حالاً، قريباً
 I'll have it finished in a short time – please be patient.
in a short time adv (within a brief span of time)في وقت قريب
 In a short time, the fire spread to the other buildings.
in a short while adv (soon)حالاً، قريباً
in a short while adv (within a brief span of time)في وقت قريب
in short adv (in summary, in brief)باختصار، بإيجاز
on short notice adv (with little warning)إنذار في آخر لحظة
 Her appointment was cancelled on short notice.
 I'm sorry to ask you on such short notice, but I only found out about this yesterday.
short and sweet adj (brief, concise)موجز، مختصر
 He kept his answers to the police short and sweet.
short answer n (concise reply)إجابة أو رد مختصر
 The final examination consisted of 100 multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
short description n (brief account)وصف موجز
 Please give us a short description of your new proposal.
short distance n (brief interval in space)مسافة قصيرة
 The taxis are only a short distance from the train station.
short hair n (hair that is close-cropped)شعر قصير
short lived, short-lived adj (brief)قصير الاجل، قصير العمر
ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is an adj before a noun
 The revolt was short-lived: it was all over within a week.
short memory n (tendency to forget quickly)ضعف ذاكرة
 He has a short memory for his own mistakes.
short memory n (short-term recall)تذكر قصير الأمد
short notice n (little warning)إخطار لمدة قصيرة، إنذار يتيح الفرصة للاستعداد
short of prep (lacking, without enough)نقص في
 I need to go shopping: we're short of bread and milk.
short of prep (less than, not quite)أقل من المطلوب
 Nothing short of a full apology will mollify him.
short of prep (excluding, except)باستثناء، عدا
 Short of a raid on the cookie jar, we won't have a snack.
short pants npl US (shorts, thigh-length trousers)بنطلون قصير
 The weather is much too cold to wear short pants.
short period n (brief or limited time)فترة قصيرة
 The sale will only last a short period, so we should purchase it now.
short shorts npl (hot pants)شورت قصير جداً
 I like to show off my legs in the summertime wearing short shorts.
short sighted, short-sighted adj UK, literal (near sighted, myopic)قصير النظر
ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is an adj before a noun
short sighted, short-sighted adj UK, figurative (without regard for later effects)قليل التبصر أو التمييز
short skirt n (above-the-knee or mini skirt)تنورة قصيرة
 Her short skirt violated the school dress code.
short story n (written fiction shorter than a novella)قصة قصيرة
 He wrote short stories about people living in rural areas.
short story writer n (author of short fiction)كاتب قصص قصيرة
 Edgar Allan Poe is probably the most famous short story writer in the world.
short tempered, short-tempered adj (grumpy, easily angered)سريع الغضب والانفعال
ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is an adj before a noun
 I can get very short-tempered with people who post irrelevant sentences on this page.
short term, short-term adj (temporary, not long-lasting)مؤقت، قصير الأجل
ملاحظة: hyphen used when term is an adj before a noun
 My short-term educational goal is to graduate college.
short time n (brief period)فترة قصيرة
 I was dating him for a short time.
short version n (abridged or condensed form)نسخة مختصرة أو قصيرة
 This is just a short version of the full-length movie production.
short version n informal (concise account)وصف دقيق
 I'll give you the short version now and tell you the full story later.
short way n (little distance)مسافة قصيرة
 It's only a short way to the grocery store.
short-cut, short cut n (quicker route)طريق مختصر
 Let's take a short cut through that cornfield.
short-cut, short cut n (quicker way of doing sth)طريقة سريعة ومقتضبة
 There are no short cuts to learning a second language.
short-story writer n (author of short fiction)كاتب قصص قصيرة
 Eudora Welty is one of America's most gifted short story writers.
short-term memory n (capacity for recall over a brief period)قوة تذكر الأبعاد القريبة
 After he reached eighty years old, his short-term memory failed.
too short adj (not long enough)قصير للغاية
 Your essay was too short for the exam standards.
too short adj (not tall enough)قريب جداً
 He was too short to join the basketball team.
very short adj (extremely brief)مختصر جداً
 Some of Ernest Hemingway's stories are very short.
very short adj (not tall)قصير جداً
 He's only 5 feet tall. He's very short.
very short adv (abrupt, rude)بفظاظة
 She must be mad at me since she was very short with me when I asked her how she was.
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