| brief | (adjective) concise and succinct | - |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: abbreviated |
| (adjective) of short duration or distance | - |
| (noun) a condensed written summary or abstract | - |
| (noun) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | Synonyms: legal brief |
| (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
| briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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| briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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| briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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| briefly | (adverb) for a short time | - |
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| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: concisely, in brief, in short, shortly |
| briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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| (noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
| briefs | (noun) (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts) | Synonyms: Jockey shorts |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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