Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a synoptical manner; in such a manner as to present a general view in a short compass.
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- adverb In a
synoptic manner - adverb With reference to a
synopsis
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Examples
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Reading several books together on the same subject ( "synoptically").
Archive 2009-02-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Reading several books together on the same subject ( "synoptically").
How to Read a Book Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The 1984 edition has facing pages intended to show "synoptically," i.e., by using a complex code of symbols on the left-hand pages, the growth of Ulysses from manuscripts through final proof revisions.
The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988
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Another approach to reading synoptically: go multi-modal.
How to Read a Book Jonathan Aquino 2009
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And to get this, one has to think synoptically… a talent that most do not have, and most fancy they do.
Will the party of “no” be able to stop the immigration reform and climate change bills? 2010
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Sellars notoriously concludes that sensory contents can be synoptically integrated into the scientific image only after both they and the currently-fundamental micro-physical particulars of that image as well undergo yet another categorial transposition into a categorially monistic ontology whose fundamental entities are all “absolute processes”.
Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009
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The second complication of Sellars 'theory of sensations arises from the further conclusion that it is this manifest image conception of sensory contents as states of perceivers which must ultimately be synoptically “fused” with the scientific image, and that the latter's commitment to the idea that those perceivers themselves are complex systems of micro-physical particles constitutes a barrier to doing so in any straightforward way.
Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009
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The Contraries Machine is a hypermedia device that allows the reader/interactor to not only read verbal and visual together, but also to read Innocence and Experience together, synoptically, in virtual space.
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I wonder how this winter, synoptically, is shaping is vs those of, say, 1988-89 and 1995-1996. jae
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This should be read synoptically with the gyrations with Congress, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and China.
Meanwhile, international money mind has been really active Mumon 2005
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