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 Translation for 'terse' from English to Icelandic
ADJ   terse | terser | tersest
SYNO crisp | curt | laconic | ...
knappur {adj}terse
kjarnyrtur {adj}terse
fáorður {adj} [stuttorður]terse
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Translation for 'terse' from English to Icelandic

terse
knappur {adj}

kjarnyrtur {adj}

fáorður {adj} [stuttorður]
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Usage Examples English
  • In these and subsequent collections, a terse "main case" of a kōan often accompanies prefatory remarks, poems, proverbs and other phrases, and further commentary about prior emendations.
  • He excelled at bird-and-flower painting, especially domestic birds. He observed the birds flying and eating, and painted them in a pure and terse taste.
  • The movement is cast in ternary form (ABA) with a literal repeat and terse extension (coda).
  • In addition, it is a terse but human-readable text format.
  • The following example may illustrate the difference between the original terse Old Norse and Saxo's elaborate translation.

  • J permits point-free style and function composition. Thus, its programs can be very terse and are considered difficult to read by some programmers.
  • For all its grandeur, the ending is remarkably concise, and the perorations are more terse than those of, say, Bruckner's own Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.
  • All these exegetes offer a terse reminder of the importance of time and care in its utilization.
  • Von Ammon's style in preaching was terse and lively, and some of his discourses are regarded as models of pulpit treatment of political questions.
  • For most organizations or groups, it is important for the minutes to be terse and only include a summary of the decisions.

  • The use of specialized and efficient libraries to provide more terse abstractions is also common in other programming languages.
  • Manohararāya Saradesāya (Manoharrai Sardesai) calls his work "terse, abstract yet appealing".
  • The description provided by Procopius is quite terse. Other sources include John Malalas and Zachariah of Mitylene.
  • Terse can be used as a general-purpose compression/decompression tool.
  • Jones herself also gained a reputation as an eccentric and intimidating She was known for issuing "terse memos" signed simply, "–muj".

  • When released in 2008 on DVD, the "New York Times" called it a "terse crime film".
  • The Gathas are in verse, metrical in the nature of ancient Iranian religious poetry, that is extremely terse.
  • The purpose of the summary of substantial facts is to fill out the rather terse picture almost inevitably presented by the indictment.
  • The K (programming language) also includes M-Expressions, in addition to the more terse notation in the APL-tradition.
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