The difference between Short and Wide

When used as nouns, short means a short circuit, whereas wide means a ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable.

When used as adverbs, short means abruptly, curtly, briefly, whereas wide means extensively.

When used as adjectives, short means having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically, whereas wide means having a large physical extent from side to side.

Short is also preposition with the meaning: deficient in.

Short is also verb with the meaning: to cause a short circuit in (something).

check bellow for the other definitions of Short and Wide

  1. Short as an adjective:

    Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.

  2. Short as an adjective (of a person):

    Of comparatively little height.

  3. Short as an adjective:

    Having little duration; opposite of long.

    Examples:

    "Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long."

  4. Short as an adjective (followed by '''for'''):

    Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).

    Examples:

    "“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible"."

  5. Short as an adjective (cricket, of a [[fielder]] or fielding [[position]]):

    that is relatively close to the batsman.

  6. Short as an adjective (cricket, of a ball):

    that bounced relatively far from the batsman.

  7. Short as an adjective (golf, of an approach shot or putt):

    that falls short of the green or the hole.

  8. Short as an adjective (of pastries and metals):

    Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening.

  9. Short as an adjective:

    Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.

    Examples:

    "He gave a short answer to the question."

  10. Short as an adjective:

    Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.

    Examples:

    "a short supply of provisions"

  11. Short as an adjective:

    Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.

    Examples:

    "to be short of money"

    "The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift."

  12. Short as an adjective:

    Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.

    Examples:

    "an account which is short of the truth"

  13. Short as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not distant in time; near at hand.

  14. Short as an adjective:

    Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.

    Examples:

    "I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging."

  1. Short as an adverb:

    Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

    Examples:

    "They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street."

    "He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting."

    "The boss got a message and cut the meeting short."

  2. Short as an adverb:

    Unawares.

    Examples:

    "The recent developments at work caught them short."

  3. Short as an adverb:

    Without achieving a goal or requirement.

    Examples:

    "His speech fell short of what was expected."

  4. Short as an adverb (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a [[cricket ball]]):

    Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.

  5. Short as an adverb (finance):

    With a negative ownership position.

    Examples:

    "We went short most finance companies in July."

  1. Short as a noun:

    A short circuit.

  2. Short as a noun:

    A short film.

  3. Short as a noun:

    Examples:

    "38 short suits fit me right off the rack."

    "Do you have that size in a short."

  4. Short as a noun (baseball):

    A shortstop.

    Examples:

    "Jones smashes a grounder between third and short."

  5. Short as a noun (finance):

    A short seller.

    Examples:

    "The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne."

  6. Short as a noun (finance):

    A short sale.

    Examples:

    "He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months."

  7. Short as a noun:

    A summary account.

  8. Short as a noun (phonetics):

    A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

  9. Short as a noun (programming):

    An having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.

  1. Short as a verb (transitive):

    To cause a short circuit in (something).

  2. Short as a verb (intransitive):

    Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

  3. Short as a verb (transitive):

    To shortchange.

  4. Short as a verb (transitive):

    To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

    Examples:

    "This is the third time I've caught them shorting us."

  5. Short as a verb (transitive, business):

    To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

  6. Short as a verb (obsolete):

    To shorten.

  1. Short as a preposition:

    Deficient in.

    Examples:

    "We are short a few men on the second shift."

    "He's short common sense."

  2. Short as a preposition (finance):

    Having a negative position in.

    Examples:

    "I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend."

  1. Wide as an adjective:

    Having a large physical extent from side to side.

    Examples:

    "We walked down a wide corridor."

  2. Wide as an adjective:

    Large in scope.

    Examples:

    "The inquiry had a wide remit."

  3. Wide as an adjective (sports):

    Operating at the side of the playing area.

    Examples:

    "That team needs a decent wide player."

  4. Wide as an adjective:

    On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

    Examples:

    "Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide."

  5. Wide as an adjective (phonetics, dated):

    Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

  6. Wide as an adjective (Scotland, Northern England, now rare):

    Vast, great in extent, extensive.

    Examples:

    "The wide, lifeless expanse."

  7. Wide as an adjective:

    Remote; distant; far.

    Examples:

    "The hut was not wide from the sea."

    "The cabin is not wide from the lake."

  8. Wide as an adjective (obsolete):

    Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

  9. Wide as an adjective (computing):

    Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

    Examples:

    "a wide character; a wide stream"

  1. Wide as an adverb:

    extensively

    Examples:

    "He travelled far and wide."

  2. Wide as an adverb:

    completely

    Examples:

    "He was wide awake."

  3. Wide as an adverb:

    away from a given goal

    Examples:

    "The arrow fell wide of the mark."

  4. Wide as an adverb:

    So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Wide as a noun (cricket):

    A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

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