Verb for wide
- is short a verb
- is short a verb or adjective
- is short a verb or noun
- is short a verb noun or adjective
Shot verb form!
shortverb2
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb short.
Short words meaning
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Entry status
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About 0.6occurrences per million words in modern written English
| 1900 | 0.2 |
| 1910 | 0.23 |
| 1920 | 0.31 |
| 1930 | 0.41 |
| 1940 | 0.49 |
| 1950 | 0.57 |
| 1960 | 0.63 |
| 1970 | 0.63 |
| 1980 | 0.62 |
| 1990 | 0.63 |
| 2000 | 0.63 |
| 2010 | 0.62 |
The earliest known use of the verb short is in the 1900s.
OED's earliest evidence for short is from 1904, in Electrical Review.
Nearby entries
- shoring, adj.¹c1503–
- shoring, adj.²1513
- shoring, adj.³1581–
- shoringness, n.1567–
- Shorin ryu, n.1974–
- shorling, n.1429–1833
- shorn, adj.Old English–
- shorned, adj.1600
- short, adj., n., & adv.Old English–
- short, v.¹Old English–
- short, v.²1904–
- short-acting, adj.1951–
- shortage,
- short is a verb or not
- is brief a verb