different between briefing vs session

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?f??/

Noun

briefing (plural briefings)

1. A short and concise summary of a situation.

   The president received a briefing on the situation before going to the press conference.

2. A presentation of information or instruction; the meeting at which it is presented.

   Today's briefing of the press will take place at 10 o'clock.

Coordinate terms

• press gaggle

Descendants

Translations

Verb

briefing

1. present participle of brief

Anagrams

• fibering

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English briefing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri(?).f??/
• Hyphenation: brie?fing

Noun

briefing f (plural briefings)

1. briefing; a short and concise summary of a situation.
2. briefing; a presentation of information or instruction; the meeting at which it is presented.

Related terms

• briefen
• debriefen, debriefing

French

Etymology

From English briefing.

Noun

briefing m (plural briefings)

1. briefing

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English briefing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri.fi?/, /?bri.fin?/, /?bri.fin/
• Hyphenation: brie?fing

Noun

briefing m (invariable)

1. briefing

Further reading

• briefing in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Etymology

From English briefing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?br?i.f?ink/

Noun

briefing m inan

1. briefing (short and concise summary of a situation)

Declension

Further reading

• briefing in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• briefing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English briefing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ifin/, [?b?i.f?n]

Noun

briefing m (plural briefings)

1. briefing

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session