(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.
Succinct
Definition:
(a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
(a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this article is to review many of these points in a succinct and practical fashion for the nurse who may be considering such a move.
(2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(3) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(4) A number of applications of the various methods are included, with examples of succinct summary displays.
(5) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(6) Last Wednesday, at a parliamentary round table, paediatrician Dr Ingrid Wolfe, one of the co-authors of Why Children Die published in May, gave a succinct and shocking analysis of why the UK has the second worst mortality rate for children in western Europe.
(7) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
(8) Human fibroblast interferon, obtained by chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose, was stable for at least a month in 30--50 per cent ethylene glycol at 4 degrees, --20 degrees, and --70 degrees C. The succinct point of the present finding is that human fibroblast interferon may be stabilized by ethylene glycol alone without the addition of bovine serum albumin and 'back-contamination' of the interferon preparation.
(9) Perhaps the most significant problem in prosthodontics today is the need to succinctly define the parameters of prosthodontic practice in order to provide guidelines for assuring that such practices are limited to the defined specialty.
(10) Prospects for preventing and treating AIDS have been succinctly summarized.
(11) But his Olympic monument seems to lack the pith and succinctness with which he usually engages people.
(12) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.
(13) As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was Seeger's destiny to be "loved and hated by precisely the right people".
(14) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
(15) We consider this tonic pain model indeed offers a succinct empirical paradigm to study human pain responsivity in general.
(16) Cameron's reply was succinct: "She may be many things, but she's not a Cherie."
(17) In the TE ORFs there are no indications of selection for the codons prevalent in the other D. melanogaster genes, but rather codon usage can be succinctly summarized in terms of the base composition at silent sites.
(18) People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart".
(19) Bill Black, the wise sage of the sport who coached Team GB's men in Sydney, puts it succinctly.
(20) Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment coalition, explained the consequences of the Gawker case succinctly: Say five years from now, if Trump loses and people are writing critical postmortems, will they have to worry that Trump will turn around and sue them?