is pronounced short

  • 1short story — short story, adj. a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words. [1885 90] * * * Brief fictional prose narrative. It usually presents a single significant episode or scene involving a limited number of characters. The form encourages… …

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  • 2short-lived — is pronounced shawt livd in BrE and shawt liyvd in AmE …

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  • 3short — short1 W1S1 [ʃo:t US ʃo:rt] adj comparative shorter superlative shortest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(time)¦ 2¦(length/distance)¦ 3¦(not tall)¦ 4¦(book/letter)¦ 5¦(not enough)¦ 6 be short on something 7¦(less than)¦ …

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  • 4short — 1 adjective LENGTH/HEIGHT/DISTANCE 1 measuring a small amount in distance or length: a short corridor with two rooms on each side | a short skirt | It s a short drive from the airport. | Anita had her hair cut short. 2 PERSON someone who is short …

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  • 5Short I — Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading=Cyrillic letter Short I uuc=0419|ulc=0439 Short I (Й, й) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И (which resembles a reversed Latin capital N), with a breve.It is the eleventh… …

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  • 6Mr. Short Khop — Also known as Short Khop Origin Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupations Rapper Years active 1997–present Associated acts …

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  • 7Phonological history of English short A — Trap bath split= The trap bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in the Boston accent, and in the Southern Hemisphere accents (Australian English, New Zealand… …

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  • 8Too Short — Infobox Musical artist Name = Too Short Img capt = Background = solo singer Birth name = Todd Anthony Shaw Alias = Short Dawg, Shorty the Pimp, Too Short Baby, The One and Only, Playboy Short Born = birth date and age|1966|4|28 small|Oakland,… …

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  • 9A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton — (粵音韻彙) is a book written by Wong Shik Ling (黃錫凌) within a few years before being published in Hong Kong, 1941. It is one of the most influential books on the research of Cantonese pronunciation. Many Chinese dictionaries later used Wong s Chinese …

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  • 10Land and hold short operations — (or LAHSO, pronounced La So ) is an Aeronautical term referring to a situation in which a landing aircraft is forced to land and hold (stop short and fast) on the runway to avoid collision with another object, or to avoid hazardous conditions on… …

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