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    in short
    [ adv ]
    in a concise manner; in a few words
    <adv.all>
    the history is summed up concisely in this bookshe replied briefly
    briefly, we have a problem
    to put it shortly


    Short \Short\, n.
    1. A summary account.

    The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
    --Shak.

    2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next
    finer than the bran.

    The first remove above bran is shorts. --Halliwell.

    3. pl. Short, inferior hemp.

    4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [Slang] --Dickens.

    5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

    If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and
    longs in English, as in ``bit'' and ``beat,''
    ``not'' and ``naught,'' we find that the short
    vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides
    being generally diphthongic as well. Hence,
    originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet
    kept quite distinct from the original longs. --H.
    Sweet.

    {In short}, in few words; in brief; briefly.

    {The long and the short}, the whole; a brief summing up.

    {The shorts} (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with
    stocks which they contracted to deliver.

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