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Concise — Basisdaten Staat: Schweiz Kanton … Deutsch Wikipedia
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concise — concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious are comparable when meaning briefly stated or presented or given to or manifesting brevity in statement or expression. A person is concise who speaks or writes briefly ; a thing is… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
concise — [kən sīs′] adj. [L concisus, cut off, brief, pp. of concidere, to cut off < com , intens. + caedere, to cut: see CIDE] brief and to the point; short and clear concisely adv. conciseness n. SYN. CONCISE implies the stating of much in few words … English World dictionary
concise — I adjective abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, brief, capsule, capsulized, compact, compacted, compendious, compressed, condensed, contracted, curtailed, curtate, epigrammatic, epitomized, laconic, pithy, short, shortened, succinct, summarized,… … Law dictionary
concise — 1580s, from L. concisus cut off, brief, pp. of concidere to cut off, cut up, cut through, cut to pieces, from com , intensive prefix (see COM (Cf. com )), + caedere to cut (see CIDE (Cf. cide)) … Etymology dictionary
CONCISE — Concise Networks Central Information Service for Europe, part of the COSINE project … Glossary of the European Union and European Communities
concise — [adj] short, to the point abridged, boiled down*, breviloquent, brief, compact, compendiary, compendious, compressed, condensed, curt, epigrammatic, in a nutshell*, laconic, lean, marrowy, meaty, pithy, short and sweet*, succinct, summary,… … New thesaurus
concise — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ giving a lot of information clearly and in few words. DERIVATIVES concisely adverb conciseness noun concision noun. ORIGIN Latin concisus cut up, cut down … English terms dictionary
