Cases of word usage

1) a brief fashion, interest (fad)

2) a beam or ray of soft light; a brief snow of some quality or emotion (gleam)

3) a very brief period of time (moment)

4) lasting for, done in, a very brief period of time (momentary)

5) a side, especially of the head; an edge or outline of something seen against a background; a brief biography, as given in a magazine or on TV (profile)

6) a brief fall of rain, snow etc; (an act of washing by using) an apparatus that produces a fall of water (shower)

7) a long, thin line or band; a trace; a brief period (streak)

8) (of speech, style, speakers) brief and exact (terse)