shorthand
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- noun
- /ˈʃɔːrthænd/
- Specialized
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taquigrafía
- Many journalists take shorthand classes to improve their note-taking speed during interviews.
- convenient shorthand
- written in shorthand
- shorthand description
Now naturally people attended plays as they attended sermons using shorthands if they could.
- Now naturally people attended plays as they attended sermons using shorthands if they could.
- His sister, who had taken a job as a sales girl, was learning shorthand in French in the evenings on the chance of bettering herself.
- So she learned shorthand and typing and she went off for three months to work at a camp at Lake Placid.
Examples
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One noted it down in shorthand, typed it up, and left the room.
Fiction book (1994) -
Your shorthand is quite lovely, Alice.
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Should have taken that shorthand course.
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You practice your shorthand a little.
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I've been taking shorthand and typing.
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- She knows shorthand.
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We call this shorthand.
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Hey, you've been brushing up on your shorthand.
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Use a rubric such as the one in Figure 3 as shorthand for documenting what you observe.
Academic text (2015) -
In her notes, she used shorthand to quickly capture the professor's lecture.
Synonyms
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A way of writing speech quickly using short signs
A fast way to write notes using short symbols
A system of shorthand typing using a special keyboard to type spoken words quickly
Compounds
- Archaic
A person who writes or types what someone says quickly using short signs
How Fast
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shorthand comes from putting short ('brief') and hand ('handwriting') together. It names a way of writing by hand using symbols and short forms, so it means a fast system for taking notes.