All 33 Uses
brief
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- But you remember our briefings.†
Chpt 1.
- THE SIXTH DAY WEDNESDAY, 8 DECEMBER CIA Headquarters Ryan had been to the office of the director of central intelligence several times before to deliver briefings and occasional personal messages from Sir Basil Charleston to his highness, the DCI.†
Chpt 6.
- Ryan, you will prepare the briefing papers and deliver the briefing yourself.†
Chpt 6.
- Ryan, you will prepare the briefing papers and deliver the briefing yourself.†
Chpt 6.
- Get a copy of his briefing papers and be ready to fly to London.†
Chpt 6.
- That means briefing the prime minister, and that's your job.†
Chpt 6.
- I have asked Dr. Ryan here to deliver the briefing.†
Chpt 6.
- Gentlemen, my name is Jack Ryan, and the subject of this briefing is recent Soviet naval activity in the North Atlantic.†
Chpt 6.
- Dr. Ryan was directed to prepare this briefing on the assumption that this data is genuine.†
Chpt 6.
- Damned nice briefing.†
Chpt 6.
- He took the briefing folders from his bag and handed them around.†
Chpt 7.
- His briefing papers were inside the flight suit, tucked against his chest.†
Chpt 7.
- The officer took his bag, and Ryan held onto the briefing material.†
Chpt 7.
- He passed out his two remaining briefing folders and talked from memory.†
Chpt 7.
- The chiefs are at their normal—well, normal for a weekday, not a Saturday—intelligence briefing.†
Chpt 9. *
- You got us that performance data on Red October that we were just briefed on.†
Chpt 9.
- As had been learned in missions over Hanoi—in which the B-52 had participated and sustained SAM (surface-to-air missile) damage—the best method of attacking a heavily defended target was to converge from all points of the compass at once, "like the enveloping arms of an angry bear," the squadron commander had put it at the briefing, indulging his poetic nature.†
Chpt 10.
- The doctor had been briefed on the helicopter trip down by a Pentagon intelligence officer who was now drinking coffee in the hospital commissary.†
Chpt 10.
- The briefing, conducted by a naval officer, had taken over an hour.†
Chpt 11.
- Richardson had read in the papers that the Russians were up to something, and when he had heard at the briefing that they were sending their fleet to trail its coat this close to the American coast, he had been shocked by their boldness.†
Chpt 11.
- A very difficult tactical operation was being run by second-line airmen, while the regular squadrons sat ready on the runways of Loring, and McGuire, and Dover, and Pease, and several other bases from Virginia to Maine, fueled, briefed, and ready.†
Chpt 11.
- The briefing officer had shown them silhouettes and photos of the warships.†
Chpt 11.
- He'd been briefed on the Seahawk immediately before flying from the Kiev.†
Chpt 15.
- In fact, Comrade Admiral, as you reported in your initial briefing, he could have reached the American coast within seven days of leaving port.†
Chpt 15.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- A political officer had to keep current, to know what the imperialists were up to so that he could brief his men on the threat.†
Chpt 5.
- With your permission, I have asked Admiral Greer to be ready to fly to England to brief the prime minister.†
Chpt 6.
- That means somebody goes out to brief the fleet commanders.†
Chpt 6.
- Somebody has to fly out to brief our fleet commander, then go on to talk to the Brits, if we get their carrier, as I expect we will.†
Chpt 6.
- Ryan is flying out to the Kennedy with Charlie Davenport to brief the fleet commanders on this October business.†
Chpt 6.
- Jack, the rule is this: you can brief the fleet commander and Davenport, that's all.†
Chpt 6.
- The inside of the Kennedy was much like the interior of the USS Guam, the helicopter assault ship Ryan had been assigned to during his brief military career.†
Chpt 7.
- He poured Ryan another shot of brandy, gave the bottle a brief look, then stowed it back in the desk.†
Chpt 7. *
- Captain Hunter will brief you on your revised orders.†
Chpt 8.
Definitions:
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(1)
(brief as in: briefed her) to give a summary of important information to someone
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(2)
(brief as in: legal brief) a summary of important facts -- especially an opinion of a legal case
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(3)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).