Short vs Reduce - What's the difference?
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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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Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(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.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
* Landor
(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
* Spenser
* Clarendon
In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
(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.
A short circuit.
A short film.
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(Used to indicate a short-length version of a size)
(baseball) A shortstop.
(finance) A short seller.
(finance) A short sale.
A summary account.
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(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
* H. Sweet
(label) An shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
To cause a in (something).
Of an electrical circuit, to .
To shortchange.
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(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.
Deficient in.
(finance) Having a negative position in.
To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
* to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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To lose weight.
To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
* to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
* An ancient but reduced family. --.
* Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.
* Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .
* Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.
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To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
* to reduce a province or a fort
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
* to reduce a city to ashes
(cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
(chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
(metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
(mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
(legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
* It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
(medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
(military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
As a proper noun short
is .As a verb reduce is
to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.short
English
(wikipedia short)Adjective
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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.
- “Phone” is short''' for “telephone” and "asap" '''short for "as soon as possible".
- He gave a short answer to the question.
- a short supply of provisions
- to be short of money
- The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
- an account which is short of the truth
- Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
- Marinell was sore offended / That his departure thence should be so short .
- He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
- 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 ofAntonyms
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long * tall * (having little duration) long * longAdverb
(-)- 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 .
- The recent developments at work caught them short .
- His speech fell short of what was expected.
- We went short most finance companies in July.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
- Do you have that size in a short .
- Jones smashes a grounder between third and short .
- The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
- The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We are short a few men on the second shift.
- He's short common sense.
- I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.
Synonyms
* (deficient in) lacking, short onDerived 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 shortStatistics
*reduce
English
Verb
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- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."