OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 3816

short

/ʃɔːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corto
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
bajo • canijo • chato • patato • petiso • pishirico • zaparruco
Of comparatively small height.
Nhung Ngo had the shortest legs at Site-43. She was the shortest member of staff, two inches beneath the positively elfin Delfina Ibanez, and yet Lillian found her inexplicably dif…
corto
Having little duration.
Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it’s been at least twenty minutes long.
The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephe…
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