(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?
Terse
Definition:
(superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
(superl.) Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
(superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
(2) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
(3) A humiliated Trierweiler was publicly ditched by Hollande in a terse 18-word statement announcing that he was “putting an end” to their “shared life”.
(4) In a terse statement the New IRA said Kearney was shot after the group carried out "an investigation".
(5) "I think the figures are somewhat overstated in this country," he says tersely, "as it's generally the same three scientists making their voices heard.
(6) There is a significant gap between the plans of the Greek authorities and requirements of the commission, ECB and IMF European commission statement In a tersely worded statement, the European commission declared talks would resume when euro area finance ministers gather in Luxembourg on Thursday.
(7) Manchester United manager Ed Woodward is reported to have sent Chelsea a "terse" letter, warning them to cease and desist in their efforts to sign Wayne Rooney .
(8) Fielding questions from journalists after the game, Altidore opened with a terse stock defense, stating: "It doesn’t matter how I play as long as we win".
(9) A senior government official was more terse: "We don't want to see China patrolling the East and South China seas as though they think they own them."
(10) Terry, meanwhile, issued a terse statement in response.
(11) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
(12) "They have cattle and now they have one of my boys," he wrote in a terse press release.
(13) In answers that ranged from terse monosyllables to rambling monologues, Cayne said he wished the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked into the way rumours about Bear were spread: "Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy or not, the bottom line is the firm came under attack."
(14) Head coach Doc Rivers has responded to the possibility with a very terse "it's stupid".
(15) Additionally, while the answers were terse, the immediacy and intimacy of the president's responses offered a glimpse into his mind that might never have been exposed so starkly in more formal circumstances.
(16) Dan Ashworth, David Gill and I have carried out a thorough process in the last three weeks and ultimately we could not look beyond Sam as the ideal candidate.” Allardyce performed a minor miracle to save Sunderland from relegation after succeeding Dick Advocaat last October but, in a terse statement which will interpreted as churlish, the Wearside club failed to reference his contribution, let alone thank him or offer their good wishes.
(17) Westminster slumbers in recess, voters are on holiday or reeling from the latesthorrors of Isis – and Nick Clegg tersely announces Lord Rennard has been reinstated as a party member , all disciplinary action miraculously evaporated.
(18) "There is no truth to these baseless allegations," Egypt's foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday.
(19) This time the drone attack was successful , from the US perspective, and al-Shabaab issued a terse statement: "The martyr received what he wished for and what he went out for."
(20) As for that last line, millions of voices cried out with “duh” and went back to exhaling tersely through their noses.