(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(2) The twitch duration of the mesothoracic TCX1 acquires its adult brevity gradually over the first 5 days of adult life.
(3) Merits of this procedure include operative simplicity and brevity, and high rate of cure.
(4) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
(5) There is a very important dwarfism with extreme micromely, macrocephalia and brevity of chest.
(6) Adenosine has several advantages over verapamil, including rapid onset, brevity of side effects, theoretical safety, and probable lack of placental transfer.
(7) Getting access to the internet is a really big deal.” Rather than looking through his media library, though, there's a better explanation for where the Facebook founder is heading: he will be aware of the brevity of the period in the limelight most tech CEOs enjoy, so at 30 he's entitled to have a mid-life crisis.
(8) Circadian and about 12-h (circasemidian) components are modulated by an approximately 84-h (circasemiseptan) component, which cannot be separated from trends in view of the brevity of the series.
(9) This assay may prove useful for the dissection of allograft rejection and tumor resistance due to its brevity, reflection of T-cell immunity, and sensitivity to host humoral factors.
(10) The comparison shows that the two groups lie on the same curve of ventricular function and that subjects with IHSS operate low down owing to the brevity of their sarcomeres.
(11) It's not an objection to brevity or humour, and no sensible person really sees a new range of possible emoji as a sign of the eschaton.
(12) This case is unusual in the brevity of steroid treatment prior to onset of the myelopathy, as well as the relatively small dose.
(13) Pretreatment with Kö 1173, however, did not influence the toxicity of ouabain infusion, implying great brevity of action.4.
(14) Countering the scepticism of those who suggest the universal Church's official language might not be an obvious tool for spontaneous exchange and debate, Manlio Simonetti, a professor in Christian history, told L'Osservatore Romano: "Latin … is very well suited to the brevity necessary on new social networks, even more so than English."
(15) Good tools exist that meet requirements such as brevity, validity, reliability, ease of administration, and ease of scoring, which make them potentially suitable for use in clinical practice.
(16) Despite the brevity of follow-up in some patients, many patients, including those with no definable cause, had multiple seizures prior to the administration of anticonvulsants.
(17) The chief advantages of the endoscopic approach are its extreme brevity of two to five minutes, lack of morbidity, and lack of threat to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
(18) For the sake of brevity only the FEV1 values are shown in the figures since the other parameters all revealed a similar pattern.
(19) This article presents a survey of clinical research focused on these questions which, for the sake of brevity, is confined to DA metabolism.
(20) The List of Threatening Experiences (LTE) of Brugha et al., by virtue of its brevity, overcomes difficulties of clinical application.
Precis
Definition:
(n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact remains the information Michel was relaying was usually a fair precis of what Smith told him by text or email, often just a few minutes previously.
(2) Here's as good a precis of this game so far as you'll read, courtesy of Matt Dony: "Watching this game is like flicking back and forth between, say, Barcelona vs Spain, and QPR vs Sunderland circa their last dalliance with the Premier League.
(3) make a precis of trials of different types of immunotherapy and as well of researches object of future therapeutic use.
(4) The delicate and precis digital motor mechanism is frequently affected by this disease and the consequences are devastating, with marked functional impairment.
(5) In precis, he realised, after years of trial and error, "that he doesn't have the kind of body that allows him to eat whatever he likes" and thereafter, cut out sugar, alcohol, any solids at all after 2pm, and refined carbohydrates .
(6) But the fact remains that the information Michel was relaying was more often than not a fair precis of what Smith had told him in an SMS or email, often just a few minutes previously.
(7) North American Precis Syndicate, Inc. (NAPS), distributes public information through various channels.
(8) If you’ve somehow managed to miss the opening eight months of the Premier League season you could have picked up a pretty decent precis of the action so far just by watching Sunday’s games at the Stadium of Light and White Hart Lane.
(9) In the fall of 1982, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Public Health Service, engaged the services of the North American Precis Syndicate, Inc., to distribute two columns on health promotion to suburban newspapers.
(10) That precis doesn't quite evoke the tone of the attack: another Twitter feminist defended Lewis later with: "It is never OK to call another woman a vicious rancid bitch."
(11) As we walk back through Soho, he rattles off an impatient precis: "The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing too.
(12) technic and his results; the neurilemmoma can be diagnosed before his extension over the limits of the intervertebral foramen, but only if a precis neurological level is known.
(13) Minions provide them with what they call coverage, which is movie jargon for precis.
(14) If she had not concealed her use of Mildronate from the anti-doping authorities, members of her own support team and the doctors whom she consulted, but had sought advice, then the contravention would have been avoided.” In precis, the tribunal ruled that taking the substance regularly at the Australian Open effectively proved that she did not know it had been banned.
(15) In addition to the peculiar response to cautery, the dorsal hindwing of Precis also develops a series of unique pattern aberrations in response to coldshock.
(16) Cautery of the dorsal hindwing in the butterfly, Precis coenia, induces the formation of a concentric colour pattern around the site of injury.
(17) The assay is rapid and adequately specific, sensitive, precies, and reproducible for routine clinical use.
(18) A precis of the historical development CPN education is provided and a stronger relationship with the Mental Nurses Committee is proposed.
(19) By treating larvae of different ages with a JH mimic, pupal commitment of the epidermis of the butterfly, Precis coenia, was found to occur in a strict temporal and spatial progression, which was serially homologous and occurred independently in each segment.
(20) In the case report the overdenture prosthesis replacing the subtotal edentulousness is fixed by a Preci-Horix anchorage of individual design built on the tooth roots.