What does SHORT mean?

adjective

1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration“a short life”
2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length“short skirts”
3. low in stature; not tall“he was short and stocky”
4. not sufficient to meet a need“an inadequate income”
5. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range“a short memory”
6. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices“a short sale”
7. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration“the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short”
8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so“a light pound”