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Look up brief, briefs, or briefing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brief, briefs, or briefing may refer to: Brief (architecture), a type of educational
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The Brief may refer to: The Brief (1984 TV series), a 1984 British drama series that aired on ITV The Brief (2004 TV series), a 2004–2005 British drama
The_Brief
Method in archaeology
In British archaeology a watching brief is a method of preserving archaeological remains by record in the face of development threat. An archaeologist
Watching_brief
2014 book by Yuval Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, Qitzur Toldot ha-Enoshut) is a 2011 book by the Israeli military historian Yuval
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind
1945 British film directed by David Lean
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still
Brief_Encounter
Veterinary clinical publication for small animal practitioners
Clinician's Brief, formerly NVAC Clinician's Brief, is a free, peer-reviewed clinical publication for veterinarians, providing concise, practical guidance
Clinician's_Brief
1993 film by Alan J. Pakula
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on John Grisham's 1992 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars
The_Pelican_Brief_(film)
"A Bintel Brief" was a Yiddish advice column, starting in early 20th century New York City, that anonymously printed readers' questions and posted replies
A_Bintel_Brief
Written Documents
A brief (Old French from Latin brevis, "short") is a written legal document used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing
Brief_(law)
2025 Canadian film
Brief Somebodies is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Andy Reid and released in 2025. The film stars Aldrin Bundoc and Matt O'Connor as Joel and
Brief_Somebodies
Type of educational or business document
A design brief is a document for a design project developed by a designer in consultation with a client. The brief outlines the deliverables and scope
Design_brief
1988 book by Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on cosmology by the physicist Stephen Hawking, first published in 1988. Hawking writes
A_Brief_History_of_Time
1969 Italian film
Brief Season (Italian: Una breve stagione, also known as As Long as it Lasts) is a 1969 Italian drama film written and directed by Renato Castellani.
Brief_Season
1973 film by Vittorio De Sica
A Brief Vacation (Italian: Una breve vacanza) is a 1973 melodrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was written by Cesare Zavattini, was
A_Brief_Vacation
Topics referred to by the same term
A Brief Affair may refer to: A Brief Affair (novel), a 2022 novel by Alex Miller A Brief Affair (film), a 2025 Italian film This disambiguation page lists
A_Brief_Affair
American Presbyterian confession of faith
The Brief Statement of Faith is a statement of faith adopted by the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1991 as part of its Book of Confessions. The statement
Brief_Statement_of_Faith
1933 American drama film
Brief Moment is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by David Burton and starring Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond. It is based on the 1931, play
Brief_Moment
2001 film by Catherine Breillat
Brief Crossing (French: Brève traversée) is a French film released in 2001 and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Sarah Pratt and Gilles Guillain
Brief_Crossing
Psychiatric symptom rating scale
The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) is a rating scale which a clinician or researcher may use to measure psychiatric symptoms such as depression
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
Brief_Psychiatric_Rating_Scale
Late 17th-century collection of biographies by John Aubrey
Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. Aubrey initially began collecting
Brief_Lives
2013 film by Stephen Finnigan
Hawking (also known as Hawking: Brief History of Mine) is a 2013 British biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan
Hawking_(2013_film)
1930 collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley
Brief Candles is the fifth collection of short fiction written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1930. The book consists of three short stories and a novella
Brief_Candles
1937 British film by Edmond T. Gréville
Brief Ecstasy (also known as Dangerous Secrets) is a 1937 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Paul Lukas, Hugh Williams, Linden
Brief_Ecstasy
Form of psychotherapy
Brief psychotherapy (also brief therapy, planned short-term therapy) is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to short-term, solution-oriented
Brief_psychotherapy
1962 British film by James Hill
The Dock Brief (US title Trial and Error; also known as A Case for the Jury) is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring
The_Dock_Brief
British climate change news site
Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of climate change. It has won awards for investigative journalism and data visualisation
Carbon_Brief
Play written by Patrick Garland
Brief Lives is a British play about John Aubrey, a 17th-century Englishman who met and kept accounts of many of the famous men of his day, including René
Brief_Lives_(play)
Autobiography of Stephen Hawking
My Brief History is a memoir published in 2013 by the English physicist Stephen Hawking. The book recounts Hawking's journey from his post-war London
My_Brief_History
2015 book by Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Hebrew: ההיסטוריה של המחר (Romanised: hahistoria shel hamachar), English: The History of the Tomorrow) is a book
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_Tomorrow
2007 single by Maria Arredondo
"Brief and Beautiful" is the third single by Norwegian pop singer Maria Arredondo, released from her fourth album, For a Moment. The single spent six
Brief_and_Beautiful
Japanese musical duo
Brief & Trunks (Japanese ブリーフ&トランクス) are a J-pop comedy duo that were originally active from 1993–2000, consisting of Takayuki Itou (伊藤多賀之) on vocals
Brief_&_Trunks
Interview series
Brief But Spectacular is an interview series broadcast nationally in the U.S. as part of PBS NewsHour. The series was created in 2015 by Steve Goldbloom
Brief_But_Spectacular
1984 British TV series or programme
The Brief is a British drama series produced for ITV by Television South (TVS) at its Southampton studios. The thirteen episodes were broadcast between
The_Brief_(1984_TV_series)
British Islamic State militant (born 1983)
Syria. Dhar wrote a travel guide to the Islamic State in May 2015, called A Brief Guide to Islamic State, and wrote of it that "If you thought London or New
Abu_Rumaysah
Type of form-fitting underpants for men
off a pair of long johns and thought, this could be cool..." The boxer brief design provides coverage for the midsection from the waist to the thighs
Boxer_briefs
British television film
Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian television film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. It was adapted from the play Still Life by Noël Coward
Brief_Encounter_(1974_film)
2005 novella by George Saunders
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil is a 130-page novella by the American writer George Saunders. It has been described as a parable and likened to
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
The_Brief_and_Frightening_Reign_of_Phil
American musician (born 1970)
track-by-track reconfiguration of the album. Also released in 2005 was A Brief Overview, a 12-track promotional-only "History of Beck" compilation CD sampler
Beck
1967 Soviet film
Brief Encounters (Russian: Короткие встречи, romanized: Korotkiye vstrechi) is a 1967 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Kira Muratova. Two
Brief_Encounters_(film)
Short story collection by David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a short story collection by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1999 by Little, Brown. According
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief_Interviews_with_Hideous_Men
2025 Italian film
A Brief Affair (Italian: Breve storia d'amore, lit. 'Short love story') is a 2025 Italian film, directed and written by Ludovica Rampoldi. It was the
A_Brief_Affair_(film)
1969 Argentine film
Brief Heaven (Spanish: Breve cielo) is a 1969 Argentine film directed by David José Kohon. It was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival
Brief_Heaven
2011 American film
Brief Reunion is a 2011 American thriller film featuring Joel de la Fuente as Aaron, a successful New England entrepreneur who is haunted by the sudden
Brief_Reunion
American author, journalist and historian (1922–2004)
essays (1980) Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (1980) One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy (1983) The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
William_Manchester
Brief Garden is a landscape garden and former home in Beruwala, Sri Lanka designed by landscape architect and owner Bevis Bawa. It is home to the landscape
Brief_(garden)
1st episode of the 3rd season of The Avengers
"Brief for Murder" is the first episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and
Brief_for_Murder
Feature detection and description computer vision algorithm
Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) is a fast robust local feature detector, first presented by Ethan Rublee et al. in 2011, that can be used in computer
Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF
Oriented_FAST_and_rotated_BRIEF
1919 letter by Franz Kafka to his father
Letter to His Father (German: Brief an den Vater) is the name given to a letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father, Hermann, in November 1919. According
Letter_to_His_Father
1908 pioneering US legal brief
The Brandeis brief was a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely more on a compilation of scientific information
Brandeis_brief
In architecture, a brief is a statement of a client's requirements, which form the basis for appointing an architect. The brief describes the requirements
Brief_(architecture)
Online database providing free access to information on prison systems
The World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted
World_Prison_Brief
2022 book by economist Thomas Piketty
A Brief History of Equality is a non-fiction book by the French economist Thomas Piketty translated by Steven Rendall from the original 2021 Une brève
A_Brief_History_of_Equality
Medical condition
Brief psychotic disorder is a psychotic condition involving the sudden onset of at least one psychotic symptom (such as disorganized thought/speech, delusions
Brief_psychotic_disorder
2004 British TV series or programme
The Brief is a British crime drama series first broadcast on ITV on 25 April 2004. The series follows the work of defence barrister Henry Farmer (Alan
The_Brief_(2004_TV_series)
Story by Leo Tolstoy
The Gospel in Brief (Russian: Краткое Изложение Евангелия) is an 1892 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life
The_Gospel_in_Brief
Two-piece swimwear
skirtini, thong, and g-string. A man's single-piece brief swimsuit may also be called a bikini or "bikini brief", particularly if it has slimmer sides. Similarly
Bikini
Comic book album
Brief Lives (1994) is the seventh collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. Written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Jill Thompson, inked
The_Sandman:_Brief_Lives
2014 book by Carlo Rovelli
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven_Brief_Lessons_on_Physics
1994 studio album by Lilys
A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns is a 1994 mini-album by the American indie rock band, Lilys, released on the SpinART label on 10-inch vinyl and CD
A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns
A_Brief_History_of_Amazing_Letdowns
Technique used to initiate change for an unhealthy or risky behaviour
Brief intervention can often be referred to as screening and brief intervention (SBI) or, in England, identification and brief advice (IBA). Brief interventions
Brief_intervention
A functional brief, in project management, is a document that talks about the functional specifications of the product that is being developed. A well-defined
Functional_brief
Medical condition
Brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE), previously apparent life-threatening event (ALTE), is a medical term in pediatrics that describes an event that
Brief resolved unexplained event
Brief_resolved_unexplained_event
Type of underwear and swimwear
Briefs (or a brief) are a type of short, form-fitting underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where material extends down the thighs. Briefs have
Briefs
Second volume of Richard Dawkin's memoir
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science is the second volume of the autobiographical memoir by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. It
Brief_Candle_in_the_Dark
2019 single by Oh Land
"Brief Moment" is a song by Danish singer and songwriter Oh Land for her fifth studio album, Family Tree (2019). Oh Land wrote the song with her boyfriend
Brief_Moment_(song)
Soliloquy from Macbeth
all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tomorrow_and_tomorrow_and_tomorrow
Academic journal
IDS Employment Law Brief (also known as IDS Brief) is a twice-monthly journal that has been reporting on and explaining new employment legislation and
IDS_Employment_Law_Brief
1993 compilation album by Various artists
Ambient 1: A Brief History of Ambient is a 1993 compilation album released on the Virgin Records label, as part of their Ambient series. The album was
A_Brief_History_of_Ambient
Australian news website
Capital Brief is an Australian news website that primarily covers business and politics. It was launched in August 2023 and is aimed at founders, executives
Capital_Brief
A creative brief is a document used by creative professionals and agencies to develop creative deliverables: visual design, copy, advertising, web sites
Creative_brief
Play by John Mortimer
The Dock Brief is a play by John Mortimer. It is a two-hander play that has been adapted many times. It was the first piece he wrote for actors although
The_Dock_Brief_(play)
2004 live album by The Waifs
A Brief History... is the fifth album and first live album by Australian folk band The Waifs, first released by Jarrah in 2004. "Lighthouse" – 4:17 "London
A_Brief_History...
A watching brief is a method normally used in criminal cases by lawyers to represent clients not directly a party to the suit and to function as an observer
Watching_brief_(lawsuit)
2024 psychological thriller film
Brief History of a Family (Chinese: 家庭简史), is a 2024 psychological thriller film written and directed by Lin Jianjie in his feature directorial debut
Brief_History_of_a_Family
1986 EP by Marillion
Brief Encounter is a compilation EP by the British neo-prog band Marillion. EMI's American label Capitol Records released it there in 1986, coinciding
Brief_Encounter_(album)
1992 novel by John Grisham
The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm
The_Pelican_Brief
Medical diagnostic method
The Brief Pain Inventory is a medical questionnaire used to measure pain, developed by the Pain Research Group of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Symptom
Brief_Pain_Inventory
Academic journal
abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) ISO 4 Brief. Bioinform. Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR ·
Briefings_in_Bioinformatics
1997 compilation album by the Sea and Cake
A Brief Historical Retrospective is a 1997 compilation album by the Sea and Cake, released only in Japan. It consists solely of tracks from the band's
A Brief Historical Retrospective
A_Brief_Historical_Retrospective
Opera by André Previn
Brief Encounter is an opera in two acts by composer André Previn. The English libretto by John Caird is based on Noël Coward's play Still Life and Coward's
Brief_Encounter_(opera)
Story 3; Rex mentions that she has gone to a new owner. (Bo Peep appears briefly in the flashback video footages of Andy's Playtime in Toy Story 3) She
List_of_Toy_Story_characters
1980s programmer's text editor
Brief (stylized BRIEF or B.R.I.E.F., a backronym for Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility), is a once-popular programmer's text editor in
Brief_(text_editor)
Species of squid
Lolliguncula brevis, or the Atlantic brief squid, is a small species of squid in the Loliginidae family. They are found in shallow parts of the western
Lolliguncula_brevis
2016 debut novel by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Story of a Brief Marriage is the debut novel by Anuk Arudpragasam that was published on September 6, 2016, by Flatiron Books. The novel, written between
The_Story_of_a_Brief_Marriage
Topics referred to by the same term
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film. Brief Encounter may also refer to: Brief Encounter (1974 film), a British-Italian drama Gregory Crewdson: Brief
Brief Encounter (disambiguation)
Brief_Encounter_(disambiguation)
1990 compilation album by Gang of Four
A Brief History of the Twentieth Century is the first compilation album by Gang of Four. It was released in December 1990. The liner notes are by Greil
A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
A_Brief_History_of_the_Twentieth_Century
2012 American film
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a 2012 American documentary film directed, produced, and shot by Ben Shapiro. It premiered March 10, 2012 at the
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
Gregory_Crewdson:_Brief_Encounters
Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1976)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestselling book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate
Yuval_Noah_Harari
Physics phenomenon
Życzkowski, K. (March 2016). "Maximally Entangled Multipartite States: A Brief Survey". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 698 (1) 012003. Bibcode:2016JPhCS
Quantum_entanglement
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) was founded in 1990 as a way to coordinate all
Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
Center_for_Human_Rights_&_Humanitarian_Law
Latin legal term meaning 'friend of the court'
insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case. Whether an amicus brief will be considered is typically under the court's discretion. The phrase
Amicus_curiae
2012 studio album by Therapy?
A Brief Crack of Light is the thirteenth studio album by the band Therapy?, and the third album to be released on Blast Records, part of The Global Music
A_Brief_Crack_of_Light
1951 film
Brief Rapture (Italian: Lebbra bianca) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Enzo Trapani and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell and Umberto Spadaro
Brief_Rapture
Topics referred to by the same term
La vida breve, The brief life, or A brief life may refer to: La vida breve (opera) La vida breve (novel) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao La vida
La_vida_breve
First published in 1992, Parliamentary Brief is a monthly British political magazine circulated by request to members of the British House of Commons
Parliamentary_Brief
Indian think-tank based in New Delhi, India
28°37′50″N 77°14′15″E / 28.630643°N 77.237465°E / 28.630643; 77.237465 Observer Research Foundation (ORF) is an independent global think tank based
Observer_Research_Foundation
The Brief Description of Little Russia, abbreviated KOM, is a Ukrainian chronicle written by an anonymous author in the 1730s. The main source for the
Brief Description of Little Russia
Brief_Description_of_Little_Russia
2007 novel by Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. The novel is set in New Jersey in the United States
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao
1990 Hong Kong film by Gordon Chan
Brief Encounter in Shinjuku is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by Gordon Chan, produced by and starring Lawrence Cheng and a sequel
Brief_Encounter_in_Shinjuku
2014 novel by Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. The novel spans several
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A_Brief_History_of_Seven_Killings
BRIEF
BRIEF
Boy/Male
Tamil
Summary, In brief
Female
Greek
(ΧÏÏσηίς) Greek name derived from the word khrysos, KHRYSEIS means "golden." In mythology, this is the name of a Trojan girl mentioned briefly in Homer's Iliad.
Girl/Female
Latin
Beautiful, loving, lovable.Amabel was used frequently during the Middle Ages and briefly in the...
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a place in the parish of New Deer in Aberdeenshire. This was probably named with the Old English elements earn ‘eagle’ + sīde ‘side’ (of a hill).English : possibly from Middle English irenside (Old English īren ‘iron’ + sīde ‘side’), a nickname for an iron-clad warrior. The best-known bearer of this nickname (not as a surname) was Edmund Ironside, who was briefly king of England in 1016.
Male
Arthurian
, Sir Caradoc's surname; (shrunken-arm).
Boy/Male
Hindu
Summary, In brief
Girl/Female
Latin English
Beautiful, loving, lovable.Amabel was used frequently during the Middle Ages and briefly in the...
Male
French
French form of Welsh freichfras ("strong-armed"), but BRIEFBRAS means "short arm." In Arthurian legend, this is a nickname for Sir Caradoc.
Surname or Lastname
English, southern French, and German
English, southern French, and German : from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name (H)adrianus, originally an ethnic name denoting someone from the coast of the Adriatic (Latin Adria). It was adopted as a cognomen by the emperor who ruled ad 117–138. It was also borne by several minor saints, in particular an early martyr at Nicomedia (died c.304), the patron saint of soldiers and butchers. There was an English St. Adrian (died 710), born in North Africa; he was abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and his cult enjoyed a brief vogue after the discovery of his supposed remains in 1091. Later, the name was adopted by several popes, including the only pope of English birth, Nicholas Breakspear, who reigned as Adrian IV (1154–59).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Summary, In brief
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
Brief; Swift; Fast
Boy/Male
Muslim
One who speaks briefly but eloquently
Girl/Female
Latin American English
Beautiful, loving, lovable.Amabel was used frequently during the Middle Ages and briefly in the...
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in northern France, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius + the locative suffix -acum. The suggestion has also been made that it is a nickname from Old French perce(r) ‘to pierce or breach’ + haie ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, referring either to a soldier remembered for his breach of a fortification, or in jest to a poacher who was in the habit of breaking into a private park.Percy is the name of a leading Northumbrian family, who were instrumental in holding the English border against the Scots from their stronghold at Alnwick. Their founder was a Norman, William de Percy (?1030–96), 1st Baron Percy, who accompanied William the Conqueror. Sir Henry Percy (1342–1408), 1st Earl of Northumberland, and his son Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403), known as Harry Hotspur, helped place Henry IV on the throne. The earldom, created in 1377, has continued, on two occasions through female members, in the same family to the present day. George Percy (1508–1632), son of the 8th Earl of Northumberland, was in VA from 1606 to 1612, serving briefly as governor.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Summary, In brief
Boy/Male
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
In Brief; Summary
Boy/Male
Indian
One who speaks briefly but eloquently
Girl/Female
Latin
Beautiful, loving, lovable.Amabel was used frequently during the Middle Ages and briefly in the...
Girl/Female
Tamil
Brief, Swift, Fast
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Anglo-Norman French chivere, chevre ‘goat’ (Latin capra ‘nanny goat’), applied as a nickname for an unpredictable or temperamental person, or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.Born in London in about 1614, the son of spinner William Cheaver, Ezekiel Cheever came to Boston in June 1637. After a brief sojourn in New Haven, CT, he was master of the Boston Latin School from 1670 until his death in 1708. He had twelve children; his youngest son, also called Ezekiel, was the clerk to the court in the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
BRIEF
BRIEF
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumberland)
English (Northumberland) : patronymic from a medieval personal name, Pack (see Pack).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Beauty
Girl/Female
Tamil
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Brookins. This is the most frequent form of the surname in the British Isles.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Conqueror, Victorious
Boy/Male
Tamil
The Sun, Lord of light
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
She who is Unchanging
Girl/Female
Muslim
Smell. Flavor.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Belonging to the Family of Holy Ones
Boy/Male
Muslim
Vision, Propitious, Auspicious, Prudent, Bringer of glad tidings
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v.
A slight and brief essay.
n.
A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
n.
A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
n.
One who makes a brief.
adv.
In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
a.
Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.
a.
Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
n.
The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.
adv.
Briefly.
n.
The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
a.
Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
n. i.
To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
adv.
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
n.
A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
n.
That which remains but for a brief time.
v. t.
The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.
adv.
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
v. t.
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
adv.
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.