All 8 Uses of
brief
in
1st to Die, by Patterson
- She won't get within a mile of a police briefing for the next year.
p. 33.7briefing = giving a summary of important information
- McBride had to be back in the office for a press briefing on the investigation.
p. 189.1 *
- With a sigh, she shifted a tower of briefs aside.
p. 240.5 *briefs = summaries of important facts -- especially opinions regarding a legal case
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- But now, outside the Hyatt, Cindy felt her brief run of luck had come to an end.†
p. 29.1
- In the brief span of their marriage, she and Michael had made love several times and taken two steamy showers together.†
p. 97.3 *
- It was just a brief thing.†
p. 179.9
- After a brief wait, the receptionist said the doctor would see me himself.†
p. 214.8
- I found Clapper — looking weary and unshaven — catching a brief rest at the dining room table.†
p. 303.5
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 rare to warrant focus) 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).