LESS vs SHORTER: NOUN
- A smaller amount.
- Something not as important as something else.
- A smaller portion or quantity.
- The inferior, younger, or smaller.
- The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
- Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
LESS vs SHORTER: ADJECTIVE
- (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
- Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior
- Not as great in amount or quantity.
- Lower in importance, esteem, or rank.
- Consisting of a smaller number.
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in esteem
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality
- (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- Unwilling to endure
- Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
- Primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- Primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length
- Lacking foresight or scope
- Comparative form of short: more short.
- Quickly aroused to anger
- Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- Not sufficient to meet a need
- Most direct
- Containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes
- Low in stature; not tall
- Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
LESS vs SHORTER: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To make less; to lessen.
- N/A
LESS vs SHORTER: ADVERB
- Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree
- To smaller extent
- In lower degree
- Comparative of little
- Used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
- To a smaller extent, degree, or frequency.
- Quickly and without warning
- In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- So as to interrupt
- Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- Clean across
- At some point or distance before a goal is reached
- At a disadvantage
- Tightly
LESS vs SHORTER: PREPOSITION
- With the deduction of; minus.
- Minus; not including
- N/A
LESS vs SHORTER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- In a smaller or lower degree; to an inferior extent, amount, etc.; in a decreased or abated way or manner: as, less prudent; less carefully executed; to exaggerate less; to think less of a person.
- Unless.
- A common English suffix forming, from nouns, adjectives meaning ‘without’ (lacking, wanting, void of, destitute of) the thing or quality denoted by the noun: as. childless, without a child; fatherless, without a father; endless, without end; hopeless, without hope; leafless, without leaves; shameless, without shame; so motherless, penniless, faithless, godless, graceless, lawless, witless, remediless, tasteless, etc.
- To make less; lessen.
- To become less; lessen.
- Not so much or so large; of smaller quantity, amount, bulk, or capacity; inferior in dimensions, extent, or duration: as, less honor or reward; less profit or possessions; less time; less distance; less scope or range; the reward is less than he deserves; a man of less courage or ability; an article of less, weight or value.
- Not so great, considerable, or important; of smaller scope or consequence; lower in the scale: as, St. James the Less; his honors are less than his deserts.
- Synonyms Smaller, Less, Fewer. Smaller is rather more exact than less, but is used freely of persons and of things both concrete and abstract: as, a smaller man, soul, size. Less is not used of persons: as, less trouble, happiness, size, degree; less of an evil. With reference to size and number, the proper words are smaller and fewer. “This apple is less than that,” “There were less people there than I expected,” are inelegant and erroneous, although similar expressions are often used both in speech and in writing. While the latter, however, is in excusable, the former may be used sparingly without offense in certain collocations, especially in poetry. The allusion to the mustard-seed in Mark iv. 31 appears to be the only example in the Bible of the use of less in the sense of ‘smaller in size.’ In Shakspere's plays the word occurs more than two hundred times, and in Milton's poems more than a hundred; in the former it is used only four or five times and in the latter three times in the sense of ‘smaller in size,’ and never in that of ‘fewer.’
- (idiom) (much/still) Certainly not.
- (idiom) (less than) Not at all.
- N/A
LESS vs SHORTER: RELATED WORDS
- Slower, Worse, Lighter, Cheaper, Shorter, Even, Longer, Greater, Decreasingly, Most, More, To a lesser extent, Inferior, Lower, Fewer
- None, Terser, Brief, Lesser, More, Lower, Tighter, Fewer, Narrower, Less, Faster, Smaller, Briefer, Quicker, Shortening
LESS vs SHORTER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Much, Slower, Worse, Lighter, Cheaper, Shorter, Even, Longer, Greater, Decreasingly, Most, More, Inferior, Lower, Fewer
- None, Terser, Brief, Lesser, More, Lower, Tighter, Fewer, Narrower, Less, Faster, Smaller, Briefer, Quicker, Shortening
LESS vs SHORTER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Number one: renting is usually less expensive overall and requires less money up front than buying a comparable home in the same area.
- The shot can make for less pain and swelling, less tissue damage, and a lower risk of death.
- Often it will make your workload less, which will lead to less stress.
- ICSID clauses in BITs while weak home governments are less likely and less capable to do so.
- Less debt means less of a financial burden once you leave school.
- These minimaist setups have two main benefits: less cost and less stuff.
- Place less positive or detrimental information in less highly visible points.
- Less invasive and less expensive is the way to go.
- We insure against less common and less costly events.
- The net result would be a less secure, less prosperous United States that is less able to exert power and influence in the world.
- The shorter the rounds and the faster the blinds increase, the shorter the tournament will take; this will reward luck.
- December was a critical time, for the days became shorter and shorter and the sun was weak and far away.
- Shorter build processes translate to lower compute costs, and overall determine a shorter development lifecycle for features released faster and at a lower cost.
- If the governing code calls for a shorter time period to abate, the shorter time period shall control.
- The smaller difference in females may be related to their shorter heights and hence a shorter distance between the upper and lower limb arteries.
- Assume that the shorter the marriage, the shorter the duration of alimony will be.
- Shorter from making his arguments regarding the reliability of no question that Shorter woulbeen entitled to the eyewitness instruction if counsel had requested it.
- TRACECA is a few times shorter than maritime transportation options from Asia metres shorter than other land ing this route more attractive.
- The sermons are getting shorter and shorter, for the most part.
- Groundhog Day all over, and the cycles are getting shorter and shorter.
LESS vs SHORTER: QUESTIONS
- Will universal health care lead to less innovation and less innovation?
- What is the less television less violence and aggression reading sample answer?
- Can eating less meat and less processed food help reduce cancer risk?
- Why are device-less manual muscle testing procedures becoming less popular?
- Why is my girlfriend talking less and listening less at work?
- Are brother-sister relationships in Bollywood becoming less and less popular?
- How much can you save with Woolworths drive less pay less?
- Is Charles Adler becoming less and less conservative?
- Is the international community becoming less and less American?
- Is the Cessna cockpit mouse-less and keyboard-less?
- Why do telomeres become shorter during cell division?
- Which is more pronounced diffraction or shorter wavelength?
- How does the shorter hunting season affect hunters?
- Are young people in the Philippines getting shorter?
- Why do indica strains have shorter flowering periods?
- Which isthmus is shorter paraseptal or inferolateral?
- Is Wayne Shorter celebration still performing live?
- Where are shorter College Garden Apartments located?
- Do prokaryotes have shorter proteins than eukaryotes?
- Are shorter telomeres linked to shorter life expectancy?