flickeringly
briefish
in a nutshell
short
briefly
in sum
jot
jot down
for a minute
momentaneously
crisp
flash
succinct
brachy-
a little
awhile
for a while
double note
minute
flicker
gliff
recapitulate
for the time being
slightish
wee
nominally
for the moment
recap
interimly
pleasantly
shortish
comma
word
remote
run through
a bit
pinpoint
a tad
in the meanwhile
transitorily
in the interim
acute
in brief
glance
quickish
close
vertically challenged
quick
fast
flying
paragraphlet
whileen
a trifle
fairly
shortly
sketch
brevi-
relatively
shy
to a degree
hot-hoof
flitting
wink
nimble-witted
soon
driblet
palmload
pop in
simplish
summarily
contingent
ratherish
spurt
title
quicksome
interim
kind of
micaless
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bibble
quicksmart
epitome
snatch
bare
compact
dash
vaguish
strigulose
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crisp
succinct
slightish
shortish
remote
acute
quickish
close
vertically challenged
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fast
flying
shy
flitting
nimble-witted
simplish
contingent
interim
micaless
quicksmart
compact
vaguish
strigulose
flickeringly
in a nutshell
short
briefly
momentaneously
a little
awhile
for a while
for the time being
nominally
for the moment
interimly
pleasantly
a bit
a tad
transitorily
in brief
a trifle
fairly
shortly
relatively
hot-hoof
soon
summarily
ratherish
quicksome
kind of
bare
double note
minute
flicker
gliff
wee
comma
word
pinpoint
paragraphlet
whileen
wink
driblet
palmload
spurt
title
bibble
epitome
snatch
dash
jot
jot down
flash
recapitulate
recap
run through
glance
sketch
pop in
adj
adv
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Unawares.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
prep
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
adv
adj
- Brief and to the point.
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
noun
- A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.
- A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping
- Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.
verb
verb
- To be visible briefly.
- To make visible briefly.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
adj
prefix
noun
adv
adj
adv
adv
noun
- A brief interval.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
verb
verb
- To summarise briefly.
- To repeat something.
- To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
- Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
- To go through hastily.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
- To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
- To fuck.
- To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Urgent.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
verb
noun
verb
- To look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To graze at a surface.
noun
adj
adj
- Short.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
adj
- hurried and brief
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- resistant to destruction or fading
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- securely fixed in place
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
adj
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
- at a rapid tempo
noun
adv
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- An amusing person.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
adj
prefix
prep_phrase
adv
noun
- A brief time; an instant.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A short title.
- A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
- The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
- A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
- The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
- A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
- A division of an act of law
- Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
- A long title.
- In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
- The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
- A publication.
- The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
- An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
verb
adj
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
adv
adj
- A lot or lots of.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- Having no decoration.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Having no supplies.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- Mere; without embellishment.
- Not insured.
verb
noun
noun
- A slight admixture.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- A rushing or violent onset.
- A short run, flight.
- Ostentatious vigor.
- The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- A dashboard.
- A hyphen or minus sign.
verb
- To leave or depart.
- To complete hastily.
- To ruin; to destroy.
- To dishearten; to sadden.
- To sprinkle; to splatter.
- To run quickly or for a short distance.
- To destroy by striking (against).
- To draw or write quickly; jot.
- To throw violently.
intj
adj
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