shorthand

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.

   “All ſhort Hands are ſubject to Ambiguity; for there being but 8 Marks to repreſent 24 Letters, and thoſe 8 being uſed for 8 of them in the Short Hand Alphabets, the other Letters muſt be deſcribed by Characters compounded of theſe 8.”

2. isim Any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.

   “The jargon becomes a shorthand for these advanced concepts.”

3. fiil To render (spoken or written words) into shorthand.

   “All the time she'd pretended to be fiddling with her purse over there behind the man, she'd been shorthanding him down—every word, every quotation, every date, every name.”

4. fiil To use a brief or shortened way of saying or doing something.

   “He liked [John Dann] MacDonald's books: You could always tell who the villainesses were because the narrator made a point of noting they had fat asses. It was as good a way as any to shorthand the world, he thought.”

5. fiil To write in shorthand.

   “Steele nodded and settled on the chesterfield. He regarded Betty seriously, her notebook poised on the table beside her as she reclined in her chair. [...] "I remember," Betty acknowledged, and went on shorthanding.”