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online:

The adj online has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. on-line, online -- (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; "on-line industries")
2. on-line, online -- (connected to a computer network or accessible by computer; "an on-line database")
3. on-line, online -- (being in progress now; "on-line editorial projects")

short:

The noun short has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) short -- (the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed)
2. short circuit, short -- (accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference)
3. shortstop, short -- (the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base)

The verb short has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. short-change, short -- (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
2. short-circuit, short -- (create a short circuit in)

The adj short has 11 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (43) short -- (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months")
2. (21) short -- ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")
3. (7) short, little -- (low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man")
4. (3) inadequate, poor, short -- (not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience")
5. unretentive, forgetful, short -- ((of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory")
6. short -- (not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton")
7. short -- (of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short")
8. light, scant, short -- (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight")
9. short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic -- (lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking")
10. short -- (tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust")
11. brusque, brusk, curt, short -- (marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him")

The adv short has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) abruptly, suddenly, short, dead -- (quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly")
2. short -- (without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash")
3. short -- (clean across; "the car's axle snapped short")
4. short -- (at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations")
5. short -- (so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue")
6. short, unawares -- (at a disadvantage; "I was caught short")
7. curtly, short, shortly -- (in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it")

fiction:

The noun fiction has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (14) fiction -- (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
2. fabrication, fiction, fable -- (a deliberately false or improbable account)

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