All 12 Uses

brief
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American Sniper
(Edited)

I also learned how to take the images and paste them onto PowerPoint for briefings and the like.
p. 132.8

briefings = meetings to give summaries of important information
The Polish NCO doing the briefing stroked his bushy beard as he pointed at me.
p. 139.2

briefing = giving a summary of important information
His briefs always started the same way: "What are you sons of bitches doing?" he'd snarl.
p. 248.9

briefs = meetings to give summaries of important information
I went up to see their commander and brief him on what had happened.
p. 260.9

brief = give a summary of important information to
We'd been briefed to expect a hell of a fight, and everything we'd been through over the past few weeks in the east reinforced that.
p. 290.8

briefed = told in a summary of important information
Whenever someone came on the gun, the person he was relieving would brief him quickly, describing who'd been in the neighborhood, etc.
p. 339.9 *

brief = give a summary of important information to
After we got back, command called us together for a briefing so we could tell a famous author and former SEAL what had happened in battle.
p. 360.9

briefing = meeting to give a summary of important information

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

THE WEEK AFTER HELL WEEK IS A BRIEF RECOVERY phase called walk week.
p. 39.6

brief = of short duration
As a new guy, I was appreciative of the brief leave.
p. 65.8
It was a brief conversation.
p. 154.9 *
After the pace of the battle in the city, I was definitely ready for a brief vacation.
p. 206.5
WE WORKED BACK INTO THINGS SLOWLY, STARTING with brief overwatches with the Army.
p. 332.4

Definitions:

(1) (brief as in: briefed her)
to give a summary of important information to someone
(2) (brief as in: legal brief)
a summary of important facts -- especially an opinion of a legal case
(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).