What's the difference between brief and briefly?

Brief


Definition:

  • (a.) Short in duration.
  • (a.) Concise; terse; succinct.
  • (a.) Rife; common; prevalent.
  • (adv.) Briefly.
  • (adv.) Soon; quickly.
  • (a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
  • (a.) An epitome.
  • (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
  • (a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
  • (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
  • (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
  • (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (3) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (4) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (5) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
  • (6) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (7) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (8) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (9) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (10) If anyone should have been briefed on Prism and Tempora, it should have been the NSC.
  • (11) A subgroup of 40 patients was asked to complete a brief survey on medical care information and satisfaction.
  • (12) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (13) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (14) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (15) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
  • (16) A brief review of the last decade or so of developments in health politics, policy and law suggests that health is no longer a field of mere "dynamics without change."
  • (17) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (18) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (19) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
  • (20) A U-shaped second-grade polynomic relationship (R = 0.69) was found between steady state of haloperidol and percentage improvement in total score on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.

Briefly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Concisely; in few words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
  • (2) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
  • (3) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
  • (4) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (5) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
  • (6) Origins for these testosterone-sensitive cells are discussed briefly.
  • (7) This review will briefly summarize some of the data on the activity-dependent components of these mechanisms and incorporate the data into a model for selective synapse stabilization of coactive synapses.
  • (8) By contrast, the services for mentally ill in England is considered to be superior and is therefore presented briefly to benefit the development of better community psychiatric care in Japan.
  • (9) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
  • (10) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
  • (11) Among the tubulo-interstitial lesions subcapsular interstitial fibrosis, acute tubular necrosis, cellular tubulo-interstitial rejection and Ciclosporin associated lesions are briefly described.
  • (12) The effects of glucocorticoids on eicosanoid synthesis are briefly summarized and issues that remained unresolved or controversial are described.
  • (13) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (14) The possible roles of the sorbitol pathway and of hypothetical regulatory sites for the glucose molecule ("receptors") are briefly discussed.
  • (15) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
  • (16) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
  • (17) This communication briefly describes how a human heart two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) protein database is being established in our laboratory.
  • (18) The possible clinical implications of this technique are briefly discussed.
  • (19) Some mechanisms that can provide catalysis of phosphoryl transfer through a metaphosphate-like transition state are reviewed briefly.
  • (20) Several aspects of cooperation between man and computer are briefly discussed.