(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.
Submittal
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposal for a privacy objective drew broad support, from privacy advocates, private submitters, law enforcement and investigative agencies alike,” the committee said in its report.
(2) Senior Yen Trader: hey ...you think we be able to convince [Primary Submitter] to change the libor today?
(3) For example: Broker B: u see 3m jpy libor going anywhere btween [sic] now and IMM?4 Primary Submitter B : looks fairly static to be honest, poss more pressure on upside, but not a lot Broker B: Oh.
(4) A revised Subdivision F guideline has been presented that becomes the current guidance for submitters of mutagenicity data to the OPP.
(5) Improvements in sample submittal to obtain accurate results from your laboratory.
(6) Libor has been going since the mid 1980s, and we had no controls in place" Broker "We hve a mutual friend who'd love to see (Libor) go down" Libor rate submitter: "hehehe... always suits me if anything to go lower as I rcve (receive) funds" Broker: "gotcha... there might be a steak in it for ya, haha" Tracey McDermott, the head of enforcement at the FSA "A number of individuals in banks seem to have decided that the rules didn't apply to them."
(7) Yen Manager: for choice we want lower libors...let the [Money Market] guys know pls Yen Trader 2: sure i am setting today as [Yen Trader 1] and cash guy off [Primary Submitter] Yen Manager: great set it nice and low Yen Trader 2: 1.02 in 6m or lower Yen Manager: yeh lower Yen Trader 2: 1.01 then cant really go much lower than that Yen Manager: ok Yen Trader 2: u care for 1m and 3m too[?]
(8) But regulators pointed to failures at RBS which had allowed the manipulation to take place by placing derivatives traders and submitters together on the same desk, heightening the conflict of interest between the profit motives of the traders and the responsibility of submitters "to make honest submissions".
(9) Definitely, definitely, definitely" Panel Bank 1 submitter: "You know, scratch my back yeah an all" Broker B: "Yeah oh definitely, yeah, play the rules."
(10) Senior Yen Trader: [Yen Trader 6], can you ask [Primary Submitter] to drop 3m Libor by 1 bps?
(11) "However, Jerry del Missier concluded that an instruction had been passed down from the Bank of England not to keep Libors so high and he therefore passed down a direction to that effect to the submitters."
(12) Updated at 1.47pm GMT 1.37pm GMT RBS Trader: fix libor and I'll make love to you Here's another exchange between an RBS trader and a colleague who submitted the bank's Libor rate: May 14, 2009: Swiss Franc Trader: [Primary Submitter] pls can we get super high 3m[,] super low 6m Swiss Franc Trader: PRETTY PLEASE!
(13) This meant that Barclays submitters believed mistakenly that they were operating under an instruction from the Bank of England to reduce Barclays' Libor submissions."
(14) Nasa offered a $15,000 prize for the top submitter in the contest, and with around 600 entrants, it emerged with two new methods to track inter-cranial pressure from other, non-invasive measurements.
(15) However Jerry del Missier concluded that an instruction had been passed down from the Bank of England not to keep LIBORs so high and he therefore passed down a direction to that effect to the submitters.
(16) Primary Submitter: yeah Former Sterling Cash Trader: u see 3m jpy libor going anywhere btween now and imm?
(17) Primary Submitter: looks fairly static to be honest , poss more pressure on upside , but not alot Former Sterling Cash Trader: oh[,] we hve a mutual friend who'd love to see it go down, no chance at all?
(18) It was not until 20 May 2009 that requests to submitters were rebuffed by an email that said: "Sorry I can't do that – compliance would have a real issue with that."
(19) Barclays' behaviour threatened the integrity of the rates with the risk of serious harm to other market participants" The individuals at Barclays, known as submitters, who were responsible for setting the interest rates emailed responses to traders such as "always happy to help," "for you, anything," or "done … for you big boy," after submitting rates that were incorrect.
(20) To which the Barclays submitter responded: "Done, for you big boy."