"short-acting" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "long-acting"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more short-acting",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most short-acting",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "short-acting"
      },
      "expansion": "short-acting (comparative more short-acting, superlative most short-acting)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmaceutical effects",
          "orig": "en:Pharmaceutical effects",
          "parents": [
            "Pharmacology",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Short-acting insulin is maximally effective for one to three hours.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, page 194",
          "text": "I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term."
      ],
      "id": "en-short-acting-en-adj-8dH7KEb-",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ],
        [
          "short term",
          "short term"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fast-acting"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dejstvašt kratko vreme",
          "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
          "word": "действащ кратко време"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
          "word": "lyhytvaikutteinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
          "word": "kurzwirksam"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "sokhyoseong",
          "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
          "word": "속효성"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short-acting"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "long-acting"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more short-acting",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most short-acting",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "short-acting"
      },
      "expansion": "short-acting (comparative more short-acting, superlative most short-acting)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Pharmaceutical effects"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Short-acting insulin is maximally effective for one to three hours.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, page 194",
          "text": "I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ],
        [
          "short term",
          "short term"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fast-acting"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dejstvašt kratko vreme",
      "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
      "word": "действащ кратко време"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
      "word": "lyhytvaikutteinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
      "word": "kurzwirksam"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sokhyoseong",
      "sense": "having a pharmaceutical effect in the short term",
      "word": "속효성"
    }
  ],
  "word": "short-acting"
}