(n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
(2) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
(3) (His new movie, The Frozen Ground , has a limited cinema release and will be available on demand, which, given the demand for on demand, Cage wishes critics would stop using as shorthand for failure.)
(4) Neoliberalism is often used today as shorthand for any idea that is pro-market and anti-government intervention, but it is actually more specific than this.
(5) Taking the episodic and cyclic plasma gonadotropin fluctuations into consideration a shorthand system classifying the gonadotropin baseline (BI-BIV) and LH responses to 25 mug LRH (R0-R2) has been established and is referred to as Human Pituitary Gonadotropin Index (HPGI).
(6) Staubach later said he had closed his eyes and prayed – and the "Hail Mary" is now NFL shorthand for a last-gasp forward pass with little chance of success.
(7) He has long decried supposed British and American plots to deny the Iranian nation its "rights" – assumed shorthand for a nuclear bomb.
(8) The shorthand name for the new edition, the organisation's fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is DSM-5.
(9) I’ve started to communicate only in code,” she says, referring to the cryptic three-letter shorthand for a voter’s answers to three crucial questions that provide their profile – will you be voting Labour, did you vote Labour last time, and would you prefer a Labour government.
(10) In the US, the Victoria's Secret catalogue has become so infamous that it is now used as a shorthand for easy-access quasi porn in US sitcoms (Friends was especially fond of referencing it).
(11) The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for describing any behaviour online that may cause offence.
(12) He and Ryan discuss technical matters in shorthand.
(13) Its truth is secondary to its function as a crude shorthand for the negating of difference and change.
(14) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(15) Nevertheless, in 1958 she left school with a favourable report: “Priscilla is suitable for office work.” She duly took a one-year secretarial and shorthand course at Anfield Commercial College, following which she landed a typing job at the offices of a construction company, BICC (British Insulated Callender’s Cables).
(16) For good or ill, the phrase stuck, and it's become an easy shorthand for people to fall back on when times get tough.
(17) If it has seemed sudden, it is because the breathless shorthand describing the crisis has disguised a fact that Iraq has been grinding towards this moment of existential truth for the past two years at least, a path from which none of its key actors has seemed able or willing to divert it.
(18) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(19) For shorthand, let's call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
(20) Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day.
Stenograph
Definition:
(v. t.) To write or report in stenographic characters.
(n.) A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
Example Sentences:
(1) She led protesters on to the stage, and the stenographer’s record of the meeting was destroyed.
(2) Planning was not just the preserve of professionals: parliamentary stenographers, religious groups, architectural critics, authors, musicians, photographers, film-makers all contributed to the collective visions of Britain's possible futures.
(3) A proficient stenographer who had had cerebral metastases suffered from pure alexia for normal print but could still read stenography with ease.
(4) Two possible machines are currently available for English Transcriptions; the Palantype (a British device) and the Stenograph (an American device).
(5) …" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "That young lady may be a stenographer and yet be compelled to warp herself, dressing and acting as if she had all the money in the world."
(6) I shall train as a stenographer to earn extra cash."
(7) Begun in 1912 by John Benjamin Murphy, one of America's surgical giants, the Surgical Clinics initially comprised verbatim stenographic reports of clinical talks given by Dr. Murphy.
(8) Of special interest to us today is the fact that Sullivan arranged to have a stenographer take down a number of his interviews with patients during the years 1926 and 1927.
(9) And yet, in their reactions to the rolling scoops published by the Guardian , the Washington Post , the New York Times and Der Spiegel, many of them seem to have succumbed either to a weird kind of spiteful envy, or to a desire to act as the unpaid stenographers to the security services and their political masters.
(10) Watch out, for the more you reduce his stature as a stenographer, the greater you make him as a writer, as a creator.'"
(11) He simply hired a stenographer to follow him around and record his stories, while he talked and talked.
(12) The effort to complete it surely killed Orwell, who was forced to type the manuscript himself; his publisher, Alfred Secker, having failed to arrange a stenographer.