shorts
Because it is a word with a single syllable, shorts is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofshorts
- A short circuit.
- A short film.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
Example: "38 short suits fit me right off the rack."
- A shortstop.
Example: "Jones smashes a grounder between third and short."
- A short seller.
Example: "The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne."
- A short sale.
Example: "He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months."
- A summary account.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
- Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
Example: "This is the third time I’ve caught them shorting us."
- 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.
- To shorten.
- Trousers worn primarily in warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.
Example: "Jessica hated covering her legs, so she usually wore shorts."
- Underwear bottoms.
Example: "After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts."
- Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
- The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
- Short, inferior hemp.
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