Shorthand

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shorthand \Short"hand`\, n.
     A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting
     characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
     etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under
     {Phonography}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shorthand
       adj : written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes"
       n : a method of writing rapidly [syn: {stenography}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "shorthand":
     Speedwriting, arrowhead, autograph, autographic, brachygraphy,
     calligraphic, character, chirographic, contraction, cuneiform,
     cursive, demotic character, determinative, engrossed, flowing,
     grammalogue, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
     hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana,
     holograph, holographic, ideogram, ideograph, in longhand,
     in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, kana,
     katakana, logogram, logograph, longhand, manuscript, ogham,
     on paper, penciled, penned, phonetic, phonetic symbol, phonography,
     pictogram, pictograph, printed, radical, rune, running,
     scriptorial, scriptural, stenographic, stenography, stylographic,
     tachygraphic, tachygraphy, wedge, word letter, written