"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
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
1. dangerously short = niebezpiecznie krótki dangerously short
  • But that was more easily said than done, and Bahzell knew his friend's temper was growing dangerously short.
  • "If we find ourselves dangerously short of money, perhaps you can set up a deal," said Owen, smiling.
  • He discovered the 24 islanders (14 adults and 10 children) were dangerously short of food.
  • As it was, 614 would be dangerously short of reaction mass when it next tried to land.
  • Riker took this latest light show as a signal that time was growing dangerously short.
  • But opponents say that even those safeguards fall dangerously short.
  • A dangerously short distance in any case between these people and what they feared.
  • Above all, they own Russia's major private banks - many of which have been caught dangerously short by the current financial crisis.
  • The fort was dangerously short of both arrows and naphtha.
  • And serious leaders in the U.S. have been in dangerously short supply.
2. severely short = poważnie krótki severely short
3. perilously short = niebezpiecznie krótki perilously short
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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