Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a concise manner; briefly; in few words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a concise manner; briefly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
concise manner,briefly , without excessive length.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a concise manner; in a few words
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Examples
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It’s difficult to explain concisely but basically my attitude towards the police has changed from thinking of you as “Maggies brown-shirts” to actually having sympathy for your situation a fair amount of the time.
Birthday « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Incidentally, the spurs which form the northern and southern jaws, so to speak, would not form a continuous ridge if the mouth were filled in, but would overlap (or to use a military term which expresses the idea concisely, they are "in echelon"), the one which comes from the north being some thirty yards east of the one which comes from the south.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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My aim is to describe as concisely and vividly as I can the marked peculiarities of the place.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857
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The point is that it does not exist as this official thing "concisely" defined so as to need no clarification when Gibson tried to trick Palin with it.
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It's not only multi-facetted, but it refers to several different and unique things, none of which has been "concisely" defined.
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This must be a new use of the word 'concisely' which I have not previously encountered.
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But it can tell us, very concisely, about the extensive yet unique group of languages to which English belongs.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But it can tell us, very concisely, about the extensive yet unique group of languages to which English belongs.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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More concisely, bad writing makes it unusually easy not to be confronted by the ideas the writer wants to express.
Why Oh Why Can't Hayek Write Better?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A phrase I have coined, “Feeding the Web 2.0 monster” concisely sums up the workload in using Web 2.0 technology.
Can social media save the day for wineries? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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