"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. fairly short = dość krótki fairly short
  • He's a somewhat short man with mechanical hands and a large head.
  • The hill as it appears today is somewhat shorter than before.
  • He was somewhat shorter than Joel, but not by much.
  • At first somewhat short, the dramas eventually became very long.
  • It is somewhat shorter than the original version, with a run time of 21:16.
  • Still, it is in this department that the new format falls somewhat short of the old one.
  • The base of the shell is short and somewhat inflated.
  • He hit .290 with 25 home runs for a team somewhat short of power.
  • The Sidmouth station was somewhat short of the town itself.
  • Moreover, ammunition for all the new weapons was still in somewhat short supply.
4. reasonably short = dość krótki reasonably short
5. pretty short = całkiem krótki pretty short
6. moderately short = w miarę krótki moderately 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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