"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 • ...
adverbio + short
Kolokacji: 63
relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
  • So why not provide enough officials to see them through in a comparatively short time?
  • She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.
  • As a result, we feel very tired after a comparatively short time.
  • A week or two spent in preparation is really a comparatively short time to plan the necessary changes.
  • These two brothers, in a comparatively short time changed the status of the school, making it a College.
  • Several groups, in the comparatively short history of mankind, have not failed it.
  • The average length of stay accordingly came out to a comparatively short 1.4 days.
  • Comparatively short but broad leaf is not longer than 2ins (5cms).
  • It was a large one, fastened to the top of the desk, and had been in use but a comparatively short time.
  • This has the benefit of allowing the reactor to be kept comparatively short.
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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