different between succinct vs lapidary

English

Etymology

From Middle English succinte, succynt, from Old French succinct, from Latin succinctus, perfect passive participle of succing? (“gird from below”), from sub + cing? (“gird, wrap, surround”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?(k)?s??kt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?k?s??(k)t/
• Hyphenation: suc?cinct

Adjective

succinct (comparative more succinct, superlative most succinct)

1. brief and to the point
2. compressed into a tiny area.

   Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.

3. (archaic) wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.

Synonyms

• concise
• laconic
• See also Thesaurus:concise

Derived terms

• succinctness
• succinctly

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syk.s??/

Adjective

succinct (feminine singular succincte, masculine plural succincts, feminine plural succinctes)

1. succinct
2. (informal, figuratively) light

3. (by extension) Concise in its intentions.

English

Etymology

From Old French lapidaire, from Latin lapid?rius (“of stones”) (later used as a noun ‘stone-cutter’), from lapis (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læp?d??i/

Noun

lapidary (plural lapidaries)

1. A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
   • 2013, Peter G. Read,Gemmology, Elsevier, p.289

     In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.

2. An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
3. (archaic) A treatise on precious stones.

Derived terms

• lapidarian
• lapidary's lathe
• lapidary's mill
• lapidary's wheel

Adjective

lapidary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
2. Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
   • 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Knopf/HarperCollins, p. 71

     The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct.