Synonyms for shorthand
ˈʃɔrtˌhændshort·hand

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1. shorthand, stenography, tachygraphyadjective

   a method of writing rapidly

   Synonyms:
   stenography, tachygraphy

   Antonyms:
   spoken

2. shorthandadjective

   written in abbreviated or symbolic form

   "shorthand notes"

   Antonyms:
   spoken

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1. shorthandnoun

   Synonyms:
   phonography, stenography

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1. List of paraphrases for "shorthand":

   stenographer, abbreviation

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1. Leo Tolstoy:

   Music is the shorthand of emotion.

2. Andrew Neil:

   That is an easy, inaccurate shorthand for what we are trying to do.

3. Charles Baudelaire:

   If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

4. Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson:

   This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever.

5. John Dowd:

   The mistake was I should have put the lying to the FBI in a separate line referencing his plea, instead, I put it together and it made all you guys go crazy. A tweet is shorthand.