brief vs transitive

brief

adj
  • Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. 

  • Of short duration; happening quickly. 

  • Concise; taking few words. 

noun
  • An answer to any action. 

  • A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate. 

  • A position of interest or advocacy. 

  • An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court. 

  • A short news story or report. 

  • A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case. 

  • The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case. 

  • A ticket of any type. 

  • A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. 

  • A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action. 

  • underwear briefs. 

verb
  • To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. 

  • To write a legal argument and submit it to a court. 

transitive

adj
  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words brief and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )