brief 的 3 个定义
brief·er, brief·est.
- lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- using few words; concise; succinct: a brief report on weather conditions.
- abrupt or curt.
- scanty: a brief bathing suit.
- a short and concise statement or written item.
- an outline, the form of which is determined by set rules, of all the possible arguments and information on one side of a controversy: a debater's brief.
- Law. a writ summoning one to answer to any action.a memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.a written argument submitted to a court. the material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.
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- to make an abstract or summary of.
- to instruct by a brief or briefing: They brief all the agents before assigning them.
- Law. to retain as advocate in a suit.
brief 近义词
short, compressed
short in time
inform of facts
更多brief例句
- As they moved down the street, Harris waved, held her hand to her heart, and bumped elbows and had brief conversations with several onlookers.
- Amazon, meanwhile, set their preorders live late Wednesday around midnight ET, only for consoles to sell out within a similarly brief timeframe.
- For over a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of fast radio bursts, brief blasts of radio waves that come mostly from distant galaxies.
- After brief introductions, he told me to follow him, but he went the wrong way.
- I’m most in love with the liner, which feels like a comfy pair of boxer-briefs even when they get wet.
- In his brief appearance today, Scalise never mentioned Duke.
- Before we get to all that, permit me a brief reflection on this matter of Steve Scalise.
- Hawking, of course, came to global fame with his book A Brief History of Time.
- Even when financial facilitators are arrested, incarceration is brief.
- Even the brief time spent chewing exposes foods to enzymes that begin to break it down.
- Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
- As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.
- And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
- The events which succeeded this fortunate capture are too well known to require more than a very brief recapitulation.
- In brief, by the close of the year, the phenomenal conditions growing directly out of the European war had been met and overcome.