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"forms": [
{
"form": "falls short",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "falling short",
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},
{
"form": "fell short",
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},
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "short-fall"
},
{
"word": "shortfall"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, page 216",
"text": "Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimes fell far short of present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245c",
"text": "But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that being falls short of itself.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient"
],
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],
[
"inadequate",
"inadequate"
],
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"insufficient",
"insufficient"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient"
],
"related": [
{
"word": "come up short"
},
{
"word": "shortcoming"
},
{
"word": "fall short to"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "tekortschieten"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "être en deçà de"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "husteréō",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ὑστερέω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "elassóomai",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ἐλασσόομαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elmarad (…az elvárásoktól)"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "alatta marad (…az elvárásoknak)"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elégtelennek bizonyul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem éri el"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem felel meg"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "dēsum"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "hara"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kam âvardan",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "کم آوردن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "não ser suficiente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bytʹ",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "быть недостаточным"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/fɔl ʃoɹt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"ipa": "/foːl ʃoːt/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian"
]
},
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"tags": [
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"word": "fall short"
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"word": "short-fall"
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"word": "shortfall"
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},
{
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"participle",
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},
{
"form": "fell short",
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"past"
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},
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}
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],
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "come up short"
},
{
"word": "shortcoming"
},
{
"word": "fall short to"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, page 216",
"text": "Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimes fell far short of present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245c",
"text": "But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that being falls short of itself.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient"
],
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[
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"satisfactory"
],
[
"inadequate",
"inadequate"
],
[
"insufficient",
"insufficient"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"General-Australian"
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (AU)"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "tekortschieten"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "être en deçà de"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "husteréō",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ὑστερέω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "elassóomai",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ἐλασσόομαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elmarad (…az elvárásoktól)"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "alatta marad (…az elvárásoknak)"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elégtelennek bizonyul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem éri el"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem felel meg"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "dēsum"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "hara"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kam âvardan",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "کم آوردن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "não ser suficiente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bytʹ",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "быть недостаточным"
}
],
"word": "fall short"
}
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