Definition of Shorthand

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Definition of Shorthand
	Shorthand A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography. Related Definitions: And, By, Compendious, For, Method, Or, Phonography, Rapid, See, Short, Stenography, Substituting, Under, Writing

Shorthand Quotations

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
Beck

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
David McCullough

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
David Strathairn

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
Isaac Pitman

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.
James Naughton

Shorthand Translations

shorthand in Danish is stenografi
shorthand in Dutch is stenografie, steno
shorthand in German is kurzerhand, Stenographie
shorthand in Swedish is stenografi

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