concise
short and clear (language)
TRANSLATION
concise = prägnant, kurz gefasst, kompakt --- GOOGLE INDEX concise: approximately 65,000,000 Google hits
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In today's unsure markets these brief PriceWatch Alerts contain CONCISE detailed strategies for each covered stock and include position protection tactics designed to potentially defend investors from unexpected market shifts.
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The management team of PGI has been working aggressively to realign its business and provide a clear and CONCISE business plan to provide guidance for management and its shareholders going forward.
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The management team of PGI has been working aggressively to realign its business and provide a clear and CONCISE business plan to provide guidance for management and its shareholders going forward.
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concise
adjective (adverb = concisely)
- short and clear, expressing what needs to be said without unnecessary words
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The great Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus - or Horace as he is known in the English speaking world - concisely described the problem all writers face when he said, "In labouring to be concise, I become obscure." He knew that the real art to writing is to say as much as possible in as few words as possible. His quote describes the fear writers face when trying to achieve this objective.
Nearly two thousand years later, William Strunk, an American professor at Cornell University who had a great impact on English usage during the 20th century, put it a different way:
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."
In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for use by his students, who nicknamed it "the little book." Strunk designed the guide "to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated." The book still belongs on the shelf of anyone who desires to write well.
Etymology: from the Latin "concisus" (cut-off, brief), present participle of "concidere" (to cut off, cut up, cut through).
Note: What is the noun form of concise? Conciseness or concision? Henry Watson Fowler, an influential British commentator on the English language, described the difference this way: "Conciseness is the English word familiar to the ordinary man. Concision is the literary critic's word used by writers under French influence and often requiring the reader to stop and think whether he knows its meaning.
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SYNONYMS
brief, compact, condensed, to the point, short and sweet, in a nutshell
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Without a concise summary upfront, most people will not bother to read the whole research paper.
adjective (adverb = concisely)
- short and clear, expressing what needs to be said without unnecessary words
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The great Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus - or Horace as he is known in the English speaking world - concisely described the problem all writers face when he said, "In labouring to be concise, I become obscure." He knew that the real art to writing is to say as much as possible in as few words as possible. His quote describes the fear writers face when trying to achieve this objective.
Nearly two thousand years later, William Strunk, an American professor at Cornell University who had a great impact on English usage during the 20th century, put it a different way:
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."
In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for use by his students, who nicknamed it "the little book." Strunk designed the guide "to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated." The book still belongs on the shelf of anyone who desires to write well.
Etymology: from the Latin "concisus" (cut-off, brief), present participle of "concidere" (to cut off, cut up, cut through).
Note: What is the noun form of concise? Conciseness or concision? Henry Watson Fowler, an influential British commentator on the English language, described the difference this way: "Conciseness is the English word familiar to the ordinary man. Concision is the literary critic's word used by writers under French influence and often requiring the reader to stop and think whether he knows its meaning.
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SYNONYMS
brief, compact, condensed, to the point, short and sweet, in a nutshell
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Without a concise summary upfront, most people will not bother to read the whole research paper.
