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Short And Sweet

Definition: Short And Sweet

Short And Sweet

Adjective

1. Dealt with very quickly; to the point; "the conference was short and sweet"; "make your statement short and sweet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Short And Sweet

Synonym: short and sweet(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Short And Sweet

Specialty definitions using "short and sweet": LARK. (references)

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Modern Usage: Short And Sweet

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Mama's little baby likes it short and sweet (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White)

Movie/TV Titles

Short and Sweet (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Short And Sweet

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

However, it is essential to keep materials short and sweet, since most Saudis do not have the time or inclination to read lengthy promotional materials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Short And Sweet

Language Translations for "short and sweet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

corto y bueno. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Short And Sweet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-w"

-2 letters: downstaters, stonewashed.

-3 letters: downstater, downstates, headstones, northeasts, northwests, stonewares, watersheds, whetstones.

-4 letters: adherents, attenders, daneworts, dethrones, detonates, downstate, earstones, earthsets, enswathed, enswathes, handwrote, hardnoses, harnessed, hasteners, headnotes, headrests, headstone, hoarsened, honestest, neatherds, northeast, northwest, otherness, resonated, resonates, rheostats, sandworts, shadowers, shattered, shortened, shrewdest, soreheads, stoneware, swanherds, teardowns, threatens, threnodes, watershed, whetstone.

-5 letters: adenoses, adherent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Short And Sweet


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 6F 72 74      41 6E 64      53 77 65 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#83 &#119 &#101 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 006F 0072 0074      0041 006E 0064      0053 0077 0065 0065 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374818486235807025389717186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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