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Concise
Concise Con*cise", a. [L. concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.; cf. F. concis.] Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. --B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. --I. Watts. Syn: Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See Laconic, and Terse.

Meaning of concise from wikipedia

- In common usage and linguistics, concision (also called conciseness, succinctness, terseness, brevity, or laconicism) is a communication principle of...
- emperors – for a concise family tree of emperors and their immediate family (27 BC–518 AD) Family tree of Byzantine emperors – for a concise family tree of...
- Look up concise in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Concise may refer to: Concision, conciseness Concise, Switzerland; a muni****lity in Jura-Nord Vaudois...
- The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known...
- (link) McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2005. ISBN 0-07-143952-8. OCLC 56459165. McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of...
- (ISBN 978-0415324953). The Concise version has the same number of entries as the ten-volume set, each entry in the Concise version being the summary of...
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is an abbreviated version of the work which appeared in the year 2000. Bowker, John (2000). The Concise Oxford...
- Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON aut****d by Carsten Bormann and Paul Hoffman....
- USS Concise (AM-163) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was built to clear minefields in offs**** waters...
- Concise is a muni****lity in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Concise is first mentioned in 1179 as Concisa. Concise...