What's the difference between short and shortstop?
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.
Shortstop
Definition:
(n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
(2) Gaspirini, a shortstop who counts speed amongst his best attributes, recently made his first trip to the United States, to visit his new organization at Kauffman Field.
(3) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
(4) Kevin Siegrist is warming up in the Cards bullpen as Michael Young is retired easily via a 100MPH pitch that gets Young to bounce out to Kozma at shortstop.
(5) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(6) The Red Sox even brought in shortstop Stephen Drew on a one-year deal, despite the fact that Boston fans disliked his older brother J.D.
(7) When the Red Sox called up shortstop prospect Jose Iglesias the hope was that he would be good enough to stick around on a big league roster.
(8) Another rookie, Wil Myers, is walked on four pitches before Ben Zobrist lines a shot through the hole between second base and shortstop- shaky start for Perez.
(9) 4.51am BST Cardinals 5 - Nationals 6, Bottom 8th The "aggressive" (read: kind of impatient and often frustrating) shortstop Ian Desmond is up and he's definitely not bunting here.
(10) Meanwhile, there’s a core of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, shortstop Starlin Castro and outfield Nate Schierholtz, who just have to get better if there’s to be any offensive improvement.
(11) @LengelDavid October 24, 2013 Well you must have liked that little backhand from Stephen Drew at shortstop to get Carpenter for the first out, right?
(12) Mercer stays in the game and replaces Barmes at shortstop for Pittsburgh.
(13) New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who retires this season, has won over hundreds of thousands of fans and our tribute video gives a hat-tip to his remarkable sportsmanship.
(14) Price doesn't look like giving up this lead or anything right now - he's in complete command, that is until the Rangers shortstop lines a shot straight up the middle and into center field.
(15) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(16) That's second base to the shortstop to first base - two outs, one time.
(17) 4.03am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, Final Vin Scully says "and the Dodgers are alive and well..." That they are after Molina grounds out to the shortstop - this ballgame is over.
(18) Back inside Tropicana Field, facing his old team, the Tampa Bay Rays, Price had a shaky first inning: Eugenio Suárez’s error at shortstop put the Rays’ Ben Zobrist on first base and the next batter, Brandon Guyer, knocked him home with a triple to right field, putting the Rays up 1-0.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter celebrates after the game with (from left to right) Joe Torre, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte after the game.
(20) 1.14am BST Reds 0 - Pirates 0, top of 1st Ryan Ludwick is up next, and the Reds left fielder hits a soft grounder to shortstop where Clint Barmes is there to fire over to first base for the second out.