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Brief   /brif/   Listen
Brief

adjective
1.
Of short duration or distance.
2.
Concise and succinct.
3.
(of clothing) very short.  Synonym: abbreviated.  "A brief bikini"
noun
1.
A document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case.  Synonym: legal brief.
2.
A condensed written summary or abstract.
verb
1.
Give essential information to someone.



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"Brief" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasures, is it not natural that I should incline to fall at the feet of a man who would love me sincerely and forever? And yet, the world would condemn me. But twenty years of suffering might well excuse a few brief years which may still remain to me of youth given to a sacred and real love. This will not happen. I am not so rash as to sacrifice my hopes of heaven. I have borne the burden and heat of the day, I shall finish my course and ...
— The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan • Honore de Balzac
... to dismiss this brief sketch of French balloonists of this period without paying some due tribute to M. Depuis Delcourt, equally well known in the literary and scientific world, and regarded in his own country as a father among aeronauts. Born in 1802, his recollection ...
— The Dominion of the Air • J. M. Bacon
... valued; and the impression, when he finally rose and moved toward the door, of having been accepted as a better guarantee than he had had any reason to hope for. On the threshold his glance crossed that of the young man in an exchange of intelligence as full as it was rapid; and this brief scene left Anna so oddly enlightened that she felt no surprise when her companion, pushing an arm-chair forward, sociably asked her if she wouldn't have a cigarette. Her polite refusal provoked the remark that he would, if she'd no objection; and while he groped for matches ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... him, swerved suddenly aside and plunged his spear into the body of Michael. On the moment Thom had one arm passed around her husband's neck, and twisting half about, with voice and gesture was splitting the mass of charging warriors. A score of men hurled past on either side, and Fairfax, for a brief instant's space, stood looking upon her and her bronze beauty, thrilling, exulting, stirred to unknown deeps, visioning strange things, dreaming, immortally dreaming. Snatches and scraps of old-world philosophies and ...
— Children of the Frost • Jack London
... brief and fragmentary outline of methods and possibilities of Old Testament study is not an impossible dream. In colleges and in a few Bible schools it is already being tried with the gratifying results that might be anticipated. To put it at once into force in most of our Sunday-schools ...
— The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament • Charles Foster Kent


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