All 7 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Briefings are common; captains and sergeants going over the plan of action on the beach with their huddled squads and platoons, again and again.†
Chpt 6.
- In that capacity he occasionally called the other corpsmen together for a briefing, to relay news, to go over procedures.†
Chpt 6. *
- But briefings got old; there wasn't much news, and by now the other corpsmen knew their procedures.†
Chpt 6.
- As Easy Company with their khaki shirts neared their destiny, seventy civilian correspondents gathered in the steaming wardroom of the command ship Eldorado anchored off Iwo, for a final briefing.†
Chpt 6.
- Bowman was giving a final briefing to the platoon leader who was relieving him so that he could head for the offshore transport and passage back home.†
Chpt 13.
- During Ira's initial briefing at Marine Barracks, at Eighth and I Streets, he was shown the enlarged photograph of the flagraising.†
Chpt 15.
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- The dedication of the Iwo Jima monument at Arlington provided Ira with a brief moment of public dignity; his last, as things turned out.†
Chpt 19. *
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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(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).