"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
1. extremely short = niezwykle krótki extremely short
2. exceedingly short = niezmiernie krótki exceedingly short
  • Affordable public housing "is in exceedingly short supply in Britain" with "about five million people are on the social-housing waiting list."
  • This makes Telluride a more out of the way, full-service ski resort with exceedingly short lift lines.
  • The student is faced with an overwhelming amount of material to get through, in an exceedingly short time.
  • In the case of the fired superintendent, that road is exceedingly short.
  • In an exceedingly short engagement later that year, he decisively defeated Pompey at Pharsalus.
  • Simple joy was in exceedingly short supply.
  • A truly full life would be an exceedingly short one, in any form of society.
  • X-rays are a leading candidate for the next step in chip making because of their exceedingly short wavelengths.
  • Guides are in exceedingly short supply at the Intrepid because of a fiscal crunch that has decimated maintenance and other areas.
  • It has a tremendous depth of shoulder and exceedingly short, stocky fore legs, which are supplied with three toed feet.
(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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