"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. well short = bardzo krótki well short
  • In terms of form, its main problem is loquaciousness; it could have been substantially shorter without losing anything essential.
  • The cord should be substantially shorter than the height of the jumping platform to allow it room to stretch.
  • Visitors who reserve a ticket in advance have a substantially shorter wait.
  • In its place was a substantially shorter desk.
  • In females the second antenna is substantially shorter than the first.
  • These three stories are substantially shorter than the first.
  • In support of this, it is noted that the Chinese versions of the work are substantially shorter.
  • The major change in the poem, rendering it substantially shorter than before, had come about in two stages.
  • Hunter turned and looked down at Wayne, who was substantially shorter.
  • This suggests that a substantially shorter and therefore less costly flood might achieve the same results.
(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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