"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. remarkably short = niezwykle krótki remarkably short
2. unusually short = wyjątkowo krótki unusually short
4. particularly short = szczególnie krótki particularly short
  • This arrangement is fairly unusual on plants except for those with particularly short internodes.
  • Bright thoughts were in particularly short supply at the moment, despite the hour I had spent hammering away at the problem.
  • I didn't get much sleep that night, and it was a particularly short one.
  • In many countries, judges hand out particularly short sentences for sexual violence.
  • Adults are generally heavy, with particularly short and heavy necks.
  • Radiologists who are willing to work nights are in particularly short supply.
  • A decade is a particularly short period of time for anyone who will need the money at the end of it.
  • According to Hume, the underlying pencil sketch actually shows that the wings are not particularly short.
  • Fan translation of written fiction, particularly short stories but sometimes including full novels.
  • "He doesn't seem to be particularly short of it," added the other, peering with growing wonder round the cabin.
5. exceptionally short = wyjątkowo krótki exceptionally 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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