"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. desperately short = rozpaczliwie krótki desperately short
2. incredibly short = niewiarygodnie krótki incredibly short
3. impossibly short = niemożliwie krótki impossibly short
4. frustratingly short = zniechęcająco krótki frustratingly short
  • Great, but frustratingly short and almost introductory.
  • Perhaps it's the disjointed presentation, frustratingly short on context and complexity.
  • But Park clearly did not leave satisfied after her bid to win a first major fell frustratingly short.
  • Her personal best is 23-11 3/4, and on any given attempt Jones is capable of jumping breathtakingly far or frustratingly short.
  • Pentagon briefings have offered more target and damage information but have been frustratingly short on important specifics.
  • Privately, party officials believe they won't get more than 30 and will fall frustratingly short of that elusive overall majority.
  • The first report had been frustratingly short.
  • - Re the album, the tracks are frustratingly short, particularly when they build up and then just end too abruptly.
  • Although some of the horn tracks are frustratingly short, the flute pieces are dizzying.
  • Once again, however, the playoff run was to be frustratingly short, as they lost 2-1 to Fresno Fuego first time out.
(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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