Слово "brief". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

We'll make this as brief as possible.

It was a brief fight and fierce.

The brief darkness around midnight came and went.

I will be brief.

One more rule, number 10, and it's this one: Be brief.

I had some other advice from Neil: to speak with no one by the way, to avoid Whigs, Campbells, and the "red-soldiers;" to leave the road and lie in a bush if I saw any of the latter coming, "for it was never chancy to meet in with them;" and in brief, to conduct myself like a robber or a Jacobite agent, as perhaps Neil thought me.

With a brief movement of the hand he indicated Ampleforth.

I was spared the trouble of answering, for Bessie seemed in too great a hurry to listen to explanations; she hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel; disciplined my head with a bristly brush, denuded me of my pinafore, and then hurrying me to the top of the stairs, bid me go down directly, as I was wanted in the breakfast-room.

That was all; but brief as it was, and to me incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with delight.

This mission, however, had certainly raised his heart rate when he and his team were first briefed.

He felt that he was unsuited to the vulgar bustle of the Bar, for he had discovered that it was not sufficient to put your name on a door to get briefs; and modern politics seemed to lack nobility.

take that time to debrief.

And when I debriefed the event with my manager,

Kites: I'm going to give you a brief history,

I had gone there intensely briefed, endless figures and projections, and talked about just one thing: famine in '82, six years away.

The administrator of NASA is waiting to brief you.