Definitions
written in abbreviated or symbolic form
Word origin
The noun is derived from short + hand (“handwriting; style of penmanship”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Used in a sentence
“A is denoted by a dot at the top of the Short-hand line; [...] The vowel a, in Short-hand, is used for the article a, or ah; [...]”
“[...] I was soon convinced, that our articles a an the should also be omitted: especially as the two former are comparatively infrequent, and the latter a perpetual incumbrance in other Short-hands.”
“In writing shorthand words are always to be spelled as they are sounded, and without any regard to orthography.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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