Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To make a summary or make a summary of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a summary or abstract of; reduce to or express in a summary; state or represent briefly. Also spelled
summarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
prepare asummary of something - verb To give a
recapitulation of thesalient facts ; torecapitulate orreview
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give a summary (of)
- verb be a summary of
Etymologies
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Examples
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Read them in Japanese, summarize if you want, but more importantly, add something unique to the discussion-something personal and NEW that you can really claim as your own.
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But I tried to summarize from the ID perspective accurately.)
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Astral Project, written by marginal, illustrated by Syuji Takeya: This series is very difficult to summarize, which is almost always indicative of a title I really like.
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Astral Project, written by marginal, illustrated by Syuji Takeya: This series is very difficult to summarize, which is almost always indicative of a title I really like.
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The three terms summarize in a very short manner what the User Experience Team's overall goals are.
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To just kind of summarize my thoughts, I think that the shadow selves are based on doubts that the characters have, but significantly exaggerated for the entertainment of those watching.
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I can just kind of summarize it by saying that it relates to Richard's relationship with Mayumi, and, you know, I'll kind of leave it at that.
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I think Obama's speech is one of these things - it contains so many ideas, so much nuance, that any attempt to "summarize" it is going to fail.
Headline Writers At The Major Networks Slow To Get Obama's Message
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Writing a hook is not the same as writing a novel, and I see that in trying to "summarize" the whole thing, I ended up sounding too detached and academic.
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And so I give my observations, make my observations and kind of summarize what I've seen and make recommendations.
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