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Wiktionary

  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.

Wikidata

  1. Shorter

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

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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

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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. Robert Schiller:

    The vast majority of jobs in metropolitan and suburban settings that care for patients with commercial insurance will limit a family physician’s scope of practice in order to meet the productivity and financial goals of the practice, these practices require high volume with shorter, less comprehensive visits.

  2. Ryan Malosh:

    Higher-risk activities are those that are indoors, with poor ventilation and lots of people for long periods of time, lower-risk activities are outdoors, with ample space to socially distance, few people outside your household, and for shorter periods of time.

  3. Jan Dumanski:

    There is a correlation between a common and avoidable risk factor, that is smoking, and the most common human mutation -- loss of the Y chromosome, this ... may in part explain why men in general have a shorter life span than women and why smoking is more dangerous for men.

  4. Andrew Fenelon:

    The idea that Americans live several years shorter than we would expect them to, given the level of development, is sort of already known, but every time I come across that number it seems staggering that we get two fewer years of life just for living here.

  5. Travis Masterson:

    They should have been less hungry at night because the fasting period was shorter, we know that there is something going on here.

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