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Short-short test(money)
Short ratio (or short interest ratio)(finance)
Short(medicine)
short cut(1)(dictionary)
Short against the box(money)
short ton(medicine)
Short(finance)
short(2)(dictionary)
Short(money)

caption (iou) and short(2) (iou)


caption (iou)



caption noun & verb. LME.
[Latin captio(n-), from capt- pa. ppl stem of capere seize: see -ION.]
A. noun.
a. Seizure, capture, taking. Now rare or obsolete in gen. sense. LME.
b. Law (orig. Scot., now Hist.). Arrest or seizure under civil process; a warrant for the civil arrest of a debtor. L15.
A captious argument; a cavil. Now rare. L16.
Law. A certificate attached to or written on a legal instrument detailing before whom it was made. L17.
A heading of a chapter, article, etc.; wording appended to an illustration, cartoon, etc.; a (cinema or Television) subtitle. Orig. US. L18.
b. verb trans. Provide with (as) a caption; entitle. E20.

short(2) (iou)



short verb1.

verb intrans. Grow short or shorter. OE-E16.
verb trans. Make short or shorter; shorten. Long rare. ME.
verb trans. Make (the time etc.) appear short by amusement etc.; refl. amuse oneself. Long obsolete exc. Scot. LME.
verb trans. Make of no effect. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
verb intrans. Come short in one's reckoning. rare. Only in M17.
verb trans. Give short measure to; cheat (a person) out of something. US colloq. M20.
verb trans. Stock Exchange. Sell (stock, a commodity, etc.) short (cf. sell short (a) s.v. SHORT adverb). M20.