"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
1. far short = daleko krótki far short
2. chronically short = chronicznie krótki chronically short
3. critically short = poważnie krótki critically short
4. notoriously short = notorycznie krótki notoriously short
6. abnormally short = nienormalnie krótki abnormally short
7. mercifully short = szczęśliwie krótki mercifully short
8. ridiculously short = śmiesznie krótki ridiculously short
9. pitifully short = żałośnie krótki pitifully short
10. notably short = szczególnie krótki notably short
11. disappointingly short = niezadowalająco krótki disappointingly short
12. tragically short = tragicznie krótki tragically short
13. absurdly short = nieprawdopodobnie krótki absurdly short
  • I believe we may have hopped an absurdly short distance in time, perhaps as little as fifteen minutes ... at least initially.
  • But the door was quickly slammed shut again, and the Royal Commission called no expert witnesses, thereafter sitting for an absurdly short period of time.
  • The height of spires cannot be taken by trigonometry; they measure absurdly short, but how tall they are to the admiring eye!
  • Viewed from this perspective - from the standpoint of eternity - "Into Great Silence," with a running time of 162 minutes, is absurdly short.
  • Women attending the spring shows in Paris last week displayed multiple hemlines, although no one wore the absurdly short minis the designers are proposing.
  • On her absurdly short legs it was a clumsy move, but she had never done that before.
  • But one year seems an absurdly short time to heal a country so devastated.
  • This shows that the four-week period is absurdly short and will, as I have said, put our unemployed under much more pressure.
  • I have to remind you what is at stake, although five minutes is an absurdly short time for such a complex problem.
  • That came on an absurdly short 14-inch putt for par on the par-4 17th.
14. decidedly short = zdecydowanie krótki decidedly short
15. depressingly short = w przygnębiający sposób krótki depressingly short
16. boyishly short = chłopięco krótki boyishly short
17. perennially short = zawsze krótki perennially 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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