"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
  • The gates were flung open and hauled closed behind the last of Maarken's group in an impossibly short time.
  • Any moment now the Professor would put his head round the door and tell her to be ready in some impossibly short time.
  • Trembling fingers fluttered through the impossibly short strands that layered it.
  • The Short Ear workers are forced to build an even bigger statue in an impossibly short amount of time.
  • Which brings me to a small room in an Ambleside hotel and an impossibly short deadline.
  • In the old movies on videotape that her father kept at The Retreat, she would sometimes see women with such impossibly short haircuts.
  • With the days getting impossibly short and the winter chill setting in, I need something to get me through the gray gloom.
  • His phone calls must wrap up within an impossibly short 15 minutes.
  • For an impossibly short span, the two became one, the joining supremely satisfying and promising joys to come.
  • There is clearly no sense in setting an impossibly short timetable in order to impress the client.
4. frustratingly short = zniechęcająco krótki frustratingly short
(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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