"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

short adjetivo

short + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 688

short story • short time • short film • short period • short distance • short term • short supply • short notice • short hair • short run • ...

verbo + short

Kolokacji: 20

fall short • cut short • stop short • grow shorter • run short • sell short • ...

Kolokacji: 6

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) fall, stop, grow, become, make, ...

Kolokacji: 8

1. fall short = nie wystarczać fall short

2. stop short = urwać, nagle przerwać stop short

3. grow shorter = stój się krótszy grow shorter

grow short

4. become shorter = stój się krótszy become shorter

5. make shorter = uczyń krótszy make shorter

make short

Make this short and sweet, he thought, get the hell out of here.
A period is used to show that a word has been made shorter.
The clients appreciate being kept in the picture, even if their stay cannot be made shorter.
It would also, I imagine, make even shorter work of the operator.
And I don't like the thought of someone's story being made shorter by somebody who didn't have anything to do with writing it.
The idea behind these is that when only a small number of errors occurs, the recovery time can (and should) be made short.
The words doctor, mister, and mistress are often made shorter when used with a name.
The resulting short growing season is made even shorter by the thin soil.
As a result, Dennis was made shorter, with a smaller chin.
A malformation at birth had made one of his arms shorter than the other.

6. come short = nie sprostać, nie osiągać celu lub standardu come short

7. get shorter = rób się coraz krótszym get shorter

8. keep short = trzymać krótki keep short

(2) cut, run, crop, wear, play, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(3) sell, look, feel, prove

Kolokacji: 4

adverbio + short

Kolokacji: 63

relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...

short + preposición

Kolokacji: 12

short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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