0 lasting only a short time -- kortvarig
a short-lived peace en kortvarig fred
1 living or lasting only for a short time -- som lever kort tid
short-lived enthusiasm.
short-lived insects
These channels tend to be somewhat short-lived and thus no direct structural studies of an intact channel assembly have (yet) been possible.
Lewinian social psychology provided a relatively short-lived alternative that attempted to do justice to the life of groups but that bracketed out their history.
The immunity was stock-specific and directed against the metacyclic forms of the parasite, but was short-lived.
Thus, skipped-generation households occurred but many were short-lived, because other adults joined the household, children moved out, the older person died, or the household dissolved.
Typically, recessions involve sharp but short-lived declines in economic activity, but expansions are gradual, and often last longer than recessions.
Indeed, her short-lived marriage itself becomes fodder for sentimental narrative.
Since short-lived hosts have little opportunity to outlive the parasite, only long-lived hosts benefit from this strategy.
Second, the free-swimming, but short-lived, cercariae emerging from the first intermediate host must invade a suitable second intermediate host.
