Definitions for Shorter
short·er

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1. shorternoun

   A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.

2. shorteradjective

   comparative form of short : more short.

   There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.

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1. Shorter

   Shorter is a town in Macon County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 355.

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1. SHORTER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shorter is ranked #4092 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Shorter surname appeared 8,675 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Shorter.
   
   58.1% or 5,045 total occurrences were Black.
   35.9% or 3,118 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 258 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 169 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.5% or 47 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 38 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Shorter' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4212

Anagrams for Shorter »

1. rothers

How to pronounce Shorter?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shorter in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shorter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Shorter in a Sentence

1. Omer Faruk Celik:

   Even though profitability is not very high in construction, the shorter return period on investment makes it more attractive than other areas of industry.

2. Ric Gillespie:

   Her hair's shorter than that. It's not down on her collar. It's shorter.

3. Amy Martin:

   It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on Dumb and Dumber but rounder and a little bit shorter. Thats exactly what it looked like.

4. Linda Birnbaum:

   So they went to the shorter chain carbons, and you study them, and they do just about the same thing, why would we think that you can make a very minor change in a molecule you are manufacturing and the body wouldn't react in the same way ? Studies also show the newer PFAS chemicals may migrate into food more readily than older forms.

5. Ginger Rogers:

   Ms. Rogers, if I wore flat shoes with a shorter hat and you wore heels, don’t you think it would balance out?

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shorter
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Shorter
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html