Short vs Passing - What's the difference?

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Short is a related term of passing.

As a proper noun short

is .

As a verb passing is

As an adjective passing is

that passes away; ephemeral.

As an adverb passing is

As a noun passing is

death, dying; the end of something.

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.

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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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passing

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

That passes away; ephemeral.

* 1814 , (Lord Byron), Lara , I.15:

And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours

* 2010 , Marianne Kirby, The Guardian , 21 Sep 2010:

It might be possible to dismiss

dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.

* Shakespeare

her passing deformity

* 1835 , (Washington Irving), The Crayon Miscellany :

It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.

* 1847 , Robert Holmes, The Case of Ireland Stated :

That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.

vague, cursory.

* 2011 , Stewart J Lawrence, The Guardian , 14 Jun 2011:

Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.

going past - passing cars.

Adverb

(-)

* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:

One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!

* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 Oct 2010:

‘I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.’

Usage notes

* This use is sometimes misconstrued as meaning "vaguely" or "slightly" (perhaps by confusion with such phrases as "passing fancy", under Adjective, above), leading to formations such as "more than passing clever" etc.

Noun

Death, dying; the end of something.

The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.

* (Oliver Onions), The Story of Louie

And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.

(legal) The act of approving a bill etc.

(sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.

A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.