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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Adjective
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1. Concise and meaningful .
2. * [chapter=Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=April 25 1873 | title= Basa Sunda: The Chemical News/Justus Liebig (obituary) | editor=w:William Crookes | journal=The Chemical News
|passage=The following passage, which is exquisitely PITHY and exquisitely
modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but
its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness."}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1876 | author=w:Rosina Bulwer Lytton | chapter= Basa Sunda: Shells from the Sands of Time/On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies | title=s:Shells from the Sands of Time
|passage=IT was a PITHY saying that of Lorenzo de' Medici, and true as PITHY,
that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we
should forgive our friends.}}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1997 |author=w:David Foster Wallace |chapter=A Supposedly Fun Thing
I'll Never Do Again |title=A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |edition=Kindle |passage=[...], a guy w/o
sunglasses or hauteur who throws open the pressurized doors to the
_Dreamward_’s Bridge and galley and Vacuum Sewage System and personally takes
me through, offering PITHY and quotable answers to questions before I’ve even
asked them.}}
1. Of, like, or abounding in pith ; spongy or having small holes or pits.
2. * 1863 , 吴语: Theodore Winthrop , _Basa Sunda: “The Heart of the Andes”/Part 2_ , Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in _Basa Sunda: Life in the Open Air and other papers_ ,
3. *: Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and PITHY ? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?
4. * 1910 , 吴语: Liberty Hyde Bailey , _Manual of Gardening_ , Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,
5. *: _Parsnip_ .—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and PITHY .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1911 | chapter= Basa Sunda: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mushroom | title=w:Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
|passage=To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in
pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a
frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep
purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly PITHY.}}
**** Synonyms
- [brief and to the point] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[Concise and meaningful]
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[Of, like, or abounding in pith]
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