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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:

Adjectives

Similar:

written (set down in writing in any of various ways)

Credits

 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)