Average vs Short - What's the difference?

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As a noun average

is (legal|marine) financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

As an adjective average

is (not comparable) constituting or relating to the average.

As a verb average

is (informal) to compute the arithmetic mean of.

As a proper noun short is

average

English

(wikipedia average)

Noun

(en noun)

(legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

* 2008 , Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment , page 219,

Historically, the courts have allowed a general average' claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.The court awarded the carrier the general '''average''' claim. It noted that “a ship?s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general ' average .

Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

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The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

(UK, legal, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Usage notes

* (sense) The term average' may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, ' average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.

Coordinate terms

* (measure of central tendency) arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, mode

Derived terms

* above average * average atomic mass * averager * batting average * below average * bowling average * earned run average * general average * grade point average * height above average terrain * law of averages * moving average * on average * particular average * rolling average * slugging average * subaverage * time average * weighted average * weighted-average cost of capital

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

I soon found I was only an average chess player.

Typical.

* 2002 , Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life , page 12,

We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

* 2004 , Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits , page 75,

Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

* '2009'', Susan T. Fiske, ''Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology , page 73,

In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average' people like more ' average communicators.

The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

* 2002 , Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 , page 228,

The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average . However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

* 2005 , Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle , page 308,

But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.

* 2009 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , page 62,

In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.

Synonyms

* (constituting or relating to the average) mean; expectation (colloquial) * (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, * (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang) * ordinary, uninspiring

Antonyms

* (neither very good nor very bad) extraordinary

Derived terms

* average bear * average Joe * averagely * averageness

Verb

(averag)

(informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.

If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

to average a loss

To be, generally or on average.

* 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build

Derived terms

* average down * average out * average up * averageable * unaveraged

short

English

(wikipedia short)

Adjective

(er)

Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

(of a person) Of comparatively little height.

Having little duration; opposite of long.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=Anna Lena Phillips , title=Sneaky Silk Moths , volume=100, issue=2, page=172 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}

Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long.

Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).

“Phone” is short''' for “telephone” and "asap" '''short for "as soon as possible".

(cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.

(cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.

Brittle (of pastry, and some metals); see also shortening, shortcrust.

Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

He gave a short answer to the question.

Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

a short supply of provisions

Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.

to be short of money

The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.

Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.

an account which is short of the truth

* Landor

Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.

(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.

* Spenser

Marinell was sore offended / That his departure thence should be so short .

* Clarendon

He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.

In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.

Usage notes

* (having a small distance between ends or edges) (term) is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is (shallow) in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension (narrow) is more commonly used.

Synonyms

* (having a small distance between ends or edges) low, narrow, slim, shallow * little, pint-sized, petite, titchy (slang) * (having little duration) brief, concise * an abbreviation of, a short form of

Antonyms

* (having a small distance between ends or edges) tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long * tall * (having little duration) long * long

Adverb

(-)

Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.

He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.

The boss got a message and cut the meeting short .

Unawares.

The recent developments at work caught them short .

Without achieving a goal or requirement.

His speech fell short of what was expected.

(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.

(finance) With a negative ownership position.

We went short most finance companies in July.

Noun

(en noun)

A short circuit.

A short film.

* 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift [http://www.avclub.com/articles/ice-age-continental-drift,82358/]

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.

(Used to indicate a short-length version of a size)

38 short suits fit me right off the rack.

Do you have that size in a short .

(baseball) A shortstop.

Jones smashes a grounder between third and short .

(finance) A short seller.

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

(finance) A short sale.

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

A summary account.

* Shakespeare

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

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

* H. Sweet

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.

(label) An shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

Verb

(en verb)

To cause a in (something).

Of an electrical circuit, to .

To shortchange.

To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.

(business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short .

(obsolete) To shorten.

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Deficient in.

We are short a few men on the second shift.

He's short common sense.

(finance) Having a negative position in.

I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.

Synonyms

* (deficient in) lacking, short on

Derived terms

* cold short * for short * hot short * in short * short-arse * short back and sides * short of * short-change, shortchange * shorten * short end of the stick * shortie * shortfall * shorthand * short strokes * shorty * the long and short

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