What's the difference between shooter and short?

Shooter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
  • (n.) That which shoots.
  • (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter.
  • (n.) A shooting star.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
  • (3) In that time it has seen the Call of Duty brand catapulted from a modestly successful cinematic shooter to the biggest entertainment property in the world.
  • (4) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
  • (5) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
  • (6) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
  • (7) According to the Orlando Weekly , a friend said that Velazquez was with two other friends at Pulse, where the dancer was pushed against a wall by the shooter, Omar Mateen.
  • (8) Ten competition shooters were tested during simulated race using the force platform technique to investigate the effect of training on postural stability.
  • (9) Shooters at stand must be instructed not to leave their stands until explicitly told to do so.
  • (10) Even though St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar erroneously said the shooter(s) were “embedded” with those chanting outside the Ferguson Police Department, the shots came from far away and could have easily struck anyone.
  • (11) As new information emerges from the FBI suggesting the husband and wife shooters were radicalised up to two years earlier and may have been plotting other attacks, Cruz argued that blanket surveillance had proven to be counter-productive in spotting potential Islamic extremists operating in the US.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father of Dallas police shooter: ‘I love my son.
  • (13) The results revealed that expert biathletes seem to use a different strategy than expert rifle shooters, each of them adapting to the characteristics of their respective discipline.
  • (14) Highly skilled shooters were less anxious and performed better across all competitions than moderately skilled shooters but did not differ on self-control and anxiety trait.
  • (15) San Bernardino shooter's alleged Isis link: Obama's worst political nightmare Read more But the battle has been less marked by tangible signs of progress, as the militant group maintains its grip on northern Syria , Iraq and the Euphrates River Valley, and as foreign fighters continue to move to and from the battlefield unimpeded.
  • (16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
  • (17) That was not necessarily a disaster for a team with West Ham’s skill set, however, so well stocked are they with long-range shooters, and both Pedro Obiang and Noble duly hit the woodwork from distance before half-time.
  • (18) The four weapons used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to kill 12 students and a teacher at Columbine high school in April 1999 were bought by a friend of the shooters from unlicensed sellers at a gun show.
  • (19) It feels like a super slick co-op shooter, which is what it is.
  • (20) "It was only the poor preparation of the Ukrainian military and the timely evacuation of law enforcement officers under the cover of armoured transport vehicles that did not allow the shooters to realise their intention."

Short


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
  • (superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
  • (superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
  • (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
  • (superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
  • (superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
  • (superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
  • (superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
  • (superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
  • (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
  • (superl.) Brittle.
  • (superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
  • (adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
  • (n.) A summary account.
  • (n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  • (n.) Short, inferior hemp.
  • (n.) Breeches; shortclothes.
  • (n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  • (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
  • (v. t.) To shorten.
  • (v. i.) To fail; to decrease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (2) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (4) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
  • (5) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (6) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (7) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (8) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
  • (9) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (10) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (11) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
  • (12) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (14) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (15) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (16) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (17) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (18) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
  • (19) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
  • (20) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.