Short story

Definition

short /ʃↄ:t/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) တိုေသာ။ နီးေသာ။ စိပ္ေသာ။ a short line/dress/journey ❍ short grass ❍ It's only a short walk/distance from my house to the shops. ❍ She's had her hair cut very short. ❍ She walked with short quick steps. Compare LONG 1 ၁ (ခ) ပုေသာ။ နိမ့္ေသာ။ a short person/ladder ❍ too short to reach the top shelf. Compare TALL ၂။ (က) (ကာလ)တိုေတာင္းေသာ။ အက်ဥ္း။ (မွတ္ဉာဏ္)ႏံု႔ေသာ။ a short vacation/speech/film/ ceremony ❍ write a short report ❍ have a short memory (ie remember only things that have happened recently) ❍ The days get shorter (ie hours of DAYLIGHT become fewer) as winter approaches. (ခ) မ်ားမၾကာမီ။ In two short years she became a star. ❍ A few short months ago she had been a happy, fun-loving girl. Compare LONG 1 ၁ ၃။ (က) ~ (of sth) နည္းေသာ။ ရွားပါးေသာ။ မလံု ေလာက္ေသာ။ လိုေသာ။ I must hurry, I'm a bit short of time. ❍ I'm getting short of decent clothes. ❍ She was short of ideas for her essay. ❍ ( infml ) I'm a bit short (ie of money) this week. (ခ) ~ on sth ( infml ) လိုေသာ။ မျပည့္ဝေသာ။ He's short on tact. ❍ Her books are pretty short on originality. ၄။ ရွားပါးေသာ။ ခက္ခဲေသာ။ မလံု ေလာက္ေသာ။ Water is short at this time of year. ၅။ ~ (of sth) (သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ျပည့္မီရန္)လိုေသာ။ We've raised £2000 but we're still £200 short of our target. ❍ Her last throw was only 3 centimetres short of the world record. ❍ This packet should contain 20 screws but it's two short. ❍ He was just short of his 80th birthday when he died. ❍ The missile landed short of its target. ❍ It took just short of two hours to do the work. ၆။ ~ for sth အတို။ အတိုေကာက္။ ‘Ben’is usually short for ‘Benjamin’. ၇။ (က) ~ (with sb) ေလသံတင္းမာေသာ။ I'm sorry if I was a bit short with you when you phoned but I was rather busy at the time. (ခ) တံုးတိတိ။ He gave her a short, impatient answer. ၈။ ရႆ(သရ)။ Compare the short vowel in ‘pull’ and the long vowel in‘pool’. ၉။ ႂကြပ္ရြေသာ။ မြရြေသာ။ a flan with a short crust. n ( infml ) ၁။ = SHORT CIRCUIT ၂။ ( Brit ) (esp pl ) (ေရမစပ္သည့္)အရက္ျပင္း။ ၃။ (ပင္မ)ဇာတ္လမ္းမစမီ ျပသည့္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ကားတို။ v ( infml ) = SHORT- CIRCUIT: The cable shorted. ❏ be caught/taken short [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ( esp Brit ) ခ်က္ခ်င္းအိမ္သာသြားလိုသည္။ ၂။ ( US ) ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေငြျပတ္ သြားသည္။ ❏ by a short head [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ရာတြင္)ႏွာ တစ္ဖ်ားျဖင့္။ win/lose by a short head. ❏ cut sth/sb short [ IDM ] ေလွေျပးတုန္းတက္က်ဳိးသည္။ ေျပာေနတုန္း ဝင္ေတာသည္။ a career tragically cut short by illness ❍ I'm sorry to cut you short in midsentence. ❏ fall short of sth [ IDM ] (လိုအပ္ခ်က္၊ အဆင့္)မမီ။ The money collected fell short of the amount required. ❍ The trip fell short of our expectations. ❏ for short [ IDM ] အတိုေကာက္။ Her name is ‘Frances’, or ‘Fran’ for short. ❏ give sb/sth / get short shrift [ IDM ] တန္းၿပီးပယ္ခ်သည္။ He went to complain to the boss, but got very short shrift. ❏ go short (of sth) [ IDM ] ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့သည္။ If you have a decent job, you'll never go short. ❍ Many children go short of food. ❏ have/be on a short fuse [ IDM ] စိတ္တိုသည္။ ကြၽဲၿမီးတို ေနသည္။ Be careful how you approach him, he's got a short fuse. ❍ His temper was on a short fuse. ❏ in short [ IDM ] တိုတိုေျပာရရင္။ Things couldn't be worse, financially: in short, we're broke. ❏ in short order [ IDM ] မၾကာမတင္မွာပင္။ They turned the business into a thriving concern in very short order. ❏ in short supply [ IDM ] ရွားပါးေသာ။ လိုသေလာက္ မရ ေသာ။ Fresh vegetables are in short supply at this time of year. ❏ little/nothing short of sth [ IDM ] …ဆိုရမေလာက္/…ႏွင့္ ဘာမွ်မထူး။ Our escape was little short of miraculous. ❍ This is nothing short of a disaster. ❏ make short work of sth/sb [ IDM ] အလြယ္တကူ ႏႊာလႊတ္သည္။ The team made short work of their opponents. ❏ run short (of sth) [ IDM ] ကုန္လုၿပီ။ run short of petrol/time. ❏ short and sweet [ IDM ] ( often ironic ) တိုတိုႏွင့္လိုရင္း။ Her visit was short and sweet—she barely came in the door. ❏ short back and sides n [sing] ေဘးႏွစ္ဖက္ႏွင့္ ေနာက္ပါးပါး(ဆံပင္ပံု)။ ❏ short-change v (esp passive) ၁။ (တမင္)ေလွ်ာ့အမ္းသည္။ be short-changed in a shop. ၂။ ထိုက္တန္ေအာင္ မခ်ီးျမႇင့္။ ပတ္လႊတ္သည္။ The staff feel that they've been short-changed by the management. ❏ short circuit (also infml short ) n လွ်ပ္စီးပတ္လမ္း ျပတ္ျခင္း။ v ၁။ (အဆက္မွား၍) လွ်ပ္စီးပတ္လမ္းျပတ္သည္။ မီးျပတ္သည္။ The lights short-circuited when I joined up the wires. ၂။ (ျမန္ျမန္ၿပီးေအာင္ သမား႐ိုးက်လမ္း မလိုက္ဘဲ)ျဖတ္လမ္းလိုက္ သည္။ short-circuit the normal procedures to get sth done quickly. ❏ short cut (also short cut ) n (က) ျဖတ္လမ္း။ I took a short cut across the field to get to school. (ခ) ျဖတ္လမ္း နည္း။ ျဖတ္လမ္း။ Becoming a doctor requires years of training — there are really no short cuts. ❏ short-handed adj လူအင္အား မလံုေလာက္။ I'm sorry to keep you waiting—we're rather short-handed today. ❏ short-haul adj ခရီးတို(ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရး)။ short-haul flights/routes/aircraft. Compare LONG-HAUL ❏ short list n (usu sing ) ( Brit ) ပဏာမအဆင့္ အေရြးခ်ယ္ခံ၊ ဆန္ခါတင္စာရင္း။ draw up a short list ❍ There are three people on the short list. v ~ sb (for sth) (esp passive) ပဏာမအဆင့္ ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္၊ အေရြးခ်ယ္ခံရသည္။ I was short-listed (for the job) but I didn't get it. ❏ short-lived /ʃↄ:t 'lÇvd; US 'laÇvd/ adj သက္ဆိုးမရွည္ ေသာ။ ၾကာရွည္မခံေသာ။ a short-lived effect/relationship/success ❍ Her interest in tennis was very short-lived. ❏ shortness n [U] ဟိုက္ျခင္း။ suffer from shortness of breath (ie difficulty in breathing). ❏ short odds n [pl] ႏိုင္ရန္ေသခ်ာေပါက္နီးပါးျဖစ္၍ ဒိုင္က အေလးအနည္းဆံုး ေပးထားသည့္ျမင္း စသည္။ There will be short odds on his winning a fourth title. Compare LONG ODDS ❏ short of sth [ IDM ] ၁။ …မ မရင္ေတာ့။ Short of a miracle, we're certain to lose. ၂။ မွတစ္ပါး။ မွလြဲ၍။ We did everything short of stealing to get the money. ❏ short order n ( US ) အျမန္ျပင္၍ တည္ခင္းႏိုင္သည့္ စားဖြယ္မ်ဳိး။ a short-order cook (ie one whose job is to cook such orders). ❏ short-range adj ၁။ တာတိုပစ္(ဒံုးစသည္)။ short-range nuclear weapons. Compare LONG-RANGE ၂။ ေရတို။ a short-range plan, project. ❏ short-run adj တာရွည္မခံေသာ။ short-run advantages/costs. ❏ short-sighted adj ၁။ (also esp US near-sighted ) အေဝးမႈန္။ wear glasses because one is short-sighted. ၂။ ေရရွည္ကိုမၾကည့္တတ္ေသာ။ မ်က္ေမြးတစ္ဆံုးသာၾကည့္ေသာ။ a short-sighted person/attitude/policy. See also NEAR-SIGHTED Compare LONG-SIGHTED ❏ short-sightedness n [U] အေဝးမႈန္။ surgery to correct short-sightedness ❍ political short-sightedness. ❏ short-staffed adj လူအင္အား မလံုေလာက္ေသာ။ We're very short-staffed because a lot of people are off sick. ❏ short-stay adj ေခတၱ တည္းခိုရာ၊ ရပ္နားရာ။ a short-stay hostel/car park. ❏ short story n ဝတၳဳတို။ ❏ short temper n [sing] စိတ္။ ေဒါသ။ ေဒါ။ He has a very short temper. ❍ Her short temper has made her many enemies. ❏ short-tempered adj စိတ္တိုေသာ။ စိတ္ဆတ္ေသာ။ Being tired often makes me short-tempered. ❏ short-term adj ေရတို။ အခ်ိန္တို။ a short-term loan/agreement/goal/appointment. Compare LONG-TERM ❏ short-termism n [U] လတ္တေလာအတြက္သာ ၾကည့္တတ္ ျခင္း။ ❏ short time n [U] ေလွ်ာ့ထားေသာ ေန႔စဥ္အလုပ္ခ်ိန္။ တာတိုလုပ္ခ်ိန္။ workers on short time ❍ short-time working. ❏ short wave n [C,U] ( abbr SW ) (ေရဒီယို) လိႈင္းတို။ a short-wave radio/broadcast. Compare LONG-WAVE, MEDIUM-WAVE

Examples

1. She’s short and slim
2. with light brown hair and blue eyes.
3. You’ll need three short boards for the shelves.
4. The theatre is a relatively short distance from here.
5. The fence posts are all six inches short.
6. The sleeves are much too short.
7. [a short while] : He was here for a short while last week.
8. [a short period/spell] : After a short period living in London
9. she moved back to Glasgow.
10. [a short stay] : I’m sorry this has been such a short stay.
11. [a few short hours/days/weeks] : In a few short weeks he’ll be going back to school.
12. Could you give us a short summary of what happened?
13. [a short article/book/poem] : It was a short book and she read it in one night.
14. [short for] : Memo is short for memorandum.
15. [for short] : My name is Elizabeth
16. or Liz for short.
17. Have you got any change on you? I’m £20 short (=I have £20 less than I need).
18. We’re one waitress short tonight
19. so everyone will have to work harder.
20. [short on] : He’s very bright but a little short on personality.
21. [short of] : They were three short of a majority
22. so the vote wasn’t passed.
23. [short of money/food/clothing] : Many of our clients are short of money.
24. Dad wasn’t working and money was short.
25. Skilled workers are in short supply around here.
26. She’s very busy and can be a little short at times.