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  • 21short — [[t]ʃɔrt[/t]] adj. short•er, short•est, adv. n. v. 1) having little length; not long 2) having little height; not tall 3) extending or reaching only a little way: a short path[/ex] 4) brief in duration; not extensive in time 5) concise, as… …

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  • 22Duration of English Parliaments before 1660 — This article augments the List of Parliaments of England to be found elsewhere (see link below) and to precede Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660, with additional information which could not be conveniently… …

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  • 23short — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. brief, concise, curt; deficient, failing; compact, stubby. See insufficiency, shortness, littleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not long in space] Syn. low, skimpy, slight, not tall, not long,… …

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  • 24Duration (philosophy) — Henri Bergson in 1927. Duration is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer s… …

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  • 25Duration (music) — Simple [quadr]duple drum pattern, against which duration is measured in much popular music: divides two beats into two   …

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  • 26duration — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, short ▪ limited ▪ Jobs were of limited duration and usually paid low wages. ▪ long, prolonged ▪ …

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  • 27short — adj., adv., n., & v. adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b not long in duration; brief (a short time ago; had a short life). c seeming less than the stated amount (a few short years of happiness). 2 of small… …

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  • 28short — adjective 1》 of a small length or duration.     ↘(of a ball in sport) travelling only a small distance before bouncing. 2》 relatively small in extent. 3》 (of a person) small in height. 4》 (short of/on) not having enough of (something); lacking or …

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  • 29Short Bomber — infobox Aircraft name = Short Bomber type = Long range reconnaissance bomber manufacturer = Short Brothers caption = designer = first flight = 1915 introduced = 1916 retired = April 1917 status = primary user = Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) more …

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  • 30short — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 not measuring much from one end to the other VERBS ▪ be, look, seem ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …

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