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: being the member of a pair of similarly spelled vowel or vowel-containing sounds that is descended from a vowel that was short in duration but is no longer so and that does not necessarily have duration as its chief distinguishing feature
SHORT definition: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. Learn more.
Define short. short synonyms, short pronunciation, short translation, English dictionary definition of short. adj. short er , short est 1. Having little length; not long. 2. Having little height; not tall. 3. Extending or traveling not far or not far enough: a short...
short (third-person singular simple present shorts, present participle shorting, simple past and past participle shorted) (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
A link with rev = canonical that is short is a short url of the canonical url by definition, thus rel = short* is redundant for the use case of discovering a short url for the canonical url of some document.
The adjective short describes things that aren't long when you measure them, or have a small distance from one end to another, like your short hair or the short walk to the library.