Brief

[briːf] or [brif]

解释:

(noun.) a condensed written summary or abstract.

(noun.) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case.

(verb.) give essential information to someone; 'The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade'.

(adj.) concise and succinct; 'covered the matter in a brief statement' .

(adj.) of short duration or distance; 'a brief stay in the country' .

手打:露西娅--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Short in duration.

(a.) Concise; terse; succinct.

(a.) Rife; common; prevalent.

(adv.) Briefly.

(adv.) Soon; quickly.

(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.

校对:梅雷迪思

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Short, concise, succinct, compendious, laconic, CURT.[2]. Transitory, fleeting, transient, temporary, short-lived, ephemeral.

n. [1]. Epitome, compendium, summary, synopsis, syllabus, abstract, breviary, abridgment, conspectus.[2]. Pontifical letter, papal rescript.[3]. (Law.) Writ, precept.

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同义词及反义词：

[See SHORT]

整理:洛厄尔

解释:

n. a short account of a client's case for the instruction of counsel: a writ: a short statement of any kind.—adj. short: concise.—adj. Brief′less.—adv. Brief′ly.—n. Brief′ness.—In brief in few words.—King's briefs royal mandates ordering collections to be made in chapels for building churches &c.; Papal brief such documents as are issued without some of the solemnities proper to bulls.—The brief and the long (Shak.) the short and the long.—To be brief to speak in a few words; To hold a brief to be retained as counsel in a case; To take a brief to undertake a case.

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