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SHORTHAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system
Synonyms:
shorthand; stenography; tachygraphy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shorthand" is a kind of...):
hand; handwriting; script (something written by hand)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Written in abbreviated or symbolic form
Example:
shorthand notes
Classified under:
Similar:
written (set down in writing in any of various ways)
Context examples:
Mina's is in shorthand, and I simply ask Mr. Hawkins to communicate with her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
So I determined to write only formal notes now, but to write fully to Mr. Hawkins in secret, and also to Mina, for to her I could write in shorthand, which would puzzle the Count, if he did see it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit—I suppose it is some of the taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths—so I handed him the shorthand diary.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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