Brief vs. Debrief
Briefadjective
Of short duration; happening quickly.
Briefadjective
Concise; taking few words.
Briefadjective
Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
Briefadjective
(obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
Briefnoun
(legal) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
Briefnoun
(legal) An answer to any action.
Briefnoun
(legal) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
Briefnoun
A position of interest or advocacy.
Briefnoun
(legal) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
Briefnoun
(English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the case.
Briefnoun
A short news story or report.
Briefnoun
undershorts briefs.
Briefnoun
(obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
Briefnoun
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
Briefnoun
(slang) A ticket of any type.
Briefverb
(transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
Briefverb
To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
Briefadverb
Briefly.
Briefadverb
Soon; quickly.
Briefadjective
Short in duration.
Briefadjective
Concise; terse; succinct.
Briefadjective
Rife; common; prevalent.
Briefadverb
Briefly.
Briefadverb
Soon; quickly.
Briefnoun
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
Briefnoun
An epitome.
Briefnoun
An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
Briefnoun
A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
Briefnoun
A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
Briefnoun
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
Briefnoun
a type of men's underpants without legs, fitting tightly and held by an elastic waistband; also called Jockey shorts.
Briefverb
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
Briefnoun
a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
Briefnoun
a condensed written summary or abstract
Briefverb
give essential information to someone;
Briefadjective
of short duration or distance;
Briefadjective
concise and succinct;
Briefadjective
(of clothing) very short;
Debriefverb
(transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence.
Debriefverb
(transitive) To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.
Debriefverb
(transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
Debriefverb
to interrogate (a person) who has recently experienced an event, to obtain information about that experience; - used especially of military pilots or diplomatic agents who have just returned from a mission.
Debriefverb
put someone through a debriefing and make him report;
