short: (not long) kurta; (insufficient) ne-sufic-anta; (abrupt) bruska; (brief) kurta; (stature) mikra; (gram. of vowels) kurta vokalo; (limited) limit-iz-ita, -ata; streta; it falls far s. of: ol tote ne suficas; mankas multo; to be s. of: esar sen; indijar; bezonar; to fall s. of: ne-atingar; (of expectations) ne satisfacar l’expekto di ulu; to fall s. in: mankar (ad) ; to cut s.: (shorten) kurt-igar; abreviar; (stop) halt-igar; inter-ruptar (la parolado di ulu); to be s. of: (necessities of life; of ideas) indijar; in s.: kurte, fine, sume; to make s.er: plu-kurt-igar; the sum is s. ten francs: mankas dek franki a la sumo.
shortcoming: (fault) kulp-(et)o.
shorten: (plu-)kurt-igar; (diminish) diminutar; (a book, a speech) abreviar; (deprive) privacar; (compress) kompresar.
shorthand: (act, art, result) stenograf-(ad)o, -arto, -uro; to take down in s.: -ar (ul)o.
short-handed, to be: esar sen sufic-anta person-aro.
short-lived: di kurta viv-(ad)o; ne-dur-anta, -iva; efemera; provizora.
shortly: (soon) balde; (briefly) kurte.
shortness: (in length, in time) kurt-eso; (in speech) brusk-eso; konciz-eso; lakonik-eso; (dearth) indij-o, -eso, -em-eso; manko; s. of breath: kurta respir-ado; s. of memory: febl-eso di memor-ado.
shortsighted: (of eyes) miopa; (in intelligence) ne-pre-vid-anta, -ema; ne-sagaca; -ness: miop-eso; manko di klar-vid-ado, di sagac-eso.
shot: (a single s. with firearm) paf-o, (repeated) -ado; (marksman) paf-isto; (direction of aim) vizo; (of a bow) flecho; (bullet) kuglo; (for cannon) kugl-ego; (shell) obuso; (for fowling piece) plombo-grani; a billiard s.: biliardo-stroko; (grapeshot, shrapnel, canister) mitralio; random s.s: ne-viz-ita paf-ado; to be a good s.: esar habila o bona paf-anto, -ero, -isto; within s.: ye fusil-atingo; ye kanon-atingo; within ear-s.: ye disto di aud-ado; he is a dead-s: il sempre atingas sua skopo; il esas ne-eror-iva paf-ero; he was s.: il fusil-ag-esis (see shoot); s. hole: kuglo-truo; s.-proof: kuglo-espruva.
should: (conditional mood, see verbal termination -us); (ought) devar.
shoulder: (push with one’s s.) shultro-pulsar; (put on one’s s.) shultr-apogar, -o-pozar; -o-portar.
shoulder: (n.) shultr-o; round s.ed: dorso rond-atra; to show anyone a cold s.: relatar kolde kun ulu; s. of mutton: muton-shultro (-peco); you should take the matter on your own s.s: vu devas asumar la responso pri to; broad s.ed man: viro kun larja shultri.
shoulder-belt: baldrio, bandoliero (cf. bretelo).
shoulder-blade: skapul-o, -parto.
shoulder-knot: (epaulet) epoleto; shultro-nodo; tago-kordono.
shoulder-strap: bretelo, porto-bretelo.
shout: (words) klamar; (inarticulate sound) kri-ar (intr.); (approval or applause) aklamar; s. to someone: (call to) vok-egar (ad); (speak loudly) parolar laute; s. with laughter: rid-egar, ridar laute.
shove: shovar, pulsar (cf. glitar); (s. one’s nose anywhere, anything in one’s pocket) pozar, stekar; s. away, s. back: repulsar; retro-pulsar; s. down: pulsar infre; fal-igar; s. off: (a boat: to leave) departar (de); for-irar; s. by: shok-pulsar.
shovel: shovel-o, -agar; s. out: exkavar, vaku-igar (ulo) per shovelo; s.ful: shovel-edo.
show: montrar; (point out) indikar; (demonstrate) demonstrar, explikar; (manifest) manifestar; (a person to a room, etc.) duktar; guidar; en-ir-igar (ulu), en-duktar; (display goods) estelar; s. anyone out:retro-duktar; akompanar; s. anyone up: des-maskar, des-vel-igar; s. off: ostentar; posturar; afektacar.