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Brief account that presents the main points in a concise form
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "brief, abbreviated; containing the sum or substance only," from Medieval Latin summarius "of or pertaining to the sum or substance," from Latin summa "whole, totality, gist" (see sum (n.)). Compare Latin phrase ad summam "on the whole, generally, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES summary execution (= one that is done immediately, without a trial or any legal process ) ▪ Protestors face summary execution. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE brief ▪ These objectives and a brief summary of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a briefstatement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 concise, brief or presented in a condensed form 2 perform speedily and without formal ceremony. 3 (context legal English) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial. n. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Summary may refer to: Abstract (summary) , shortening a passage or a write-up without changing its meaning but by using different words and sentences Abridgement , the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form Executive summary ...
Usage examples of summary.
Phalaris, manner of bending--Results of the exclusion of light from their tips--Effects transmitted beneath the surface of the ground--Lateral illumination of the tip determines the direction of the curvature of the base--Cotyledons of Avena, curvature of basal part due to the illumination of upper part--Similar results with the hypocotyls of Brassica and Beta--Radicles of Sinapis apheliotropic, due to the sensitiveness of their tips--Concluding remarks and summary of chapter--Means by which circumnutation has been converted into heliotropism or apheliotropism.
Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.
Once there, the pain he was in, added to the disorder occasioned in his brain by the five leaders, caused him to give forth a summary of their contents, while Blink pressed his knees with her chin whenever the rising of his voice betokened too great absorption, as was her wont when she wanted him to feed her.
What we know of the Titans is drawn from short summaries in the Theogany of Hesiod and the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, and from brief references that must be sifted from works devoted to other, often nonmythological subjects.
You are aware, since you sent her, that Carol Endermann spent the last weekend in Centennial advising me of your gratification that the work was going so well and of your disappointment that I was sending you too few scintillating quotes and summary generalizations.
In summary, if the rifle was located by clairvoyance, the search may well have been unconstitutional in analogy to wiretapping.
Each projectile point we subjected to rigorous examination and recording, drawing each projectile point on a special form and recording its catalog number along with a summary of a host of other information regarding where it was found and its curatorial history.
Summary: Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr.
He gave her what she needed with the crisp exactitude of a council summary.
SUMMARY: The Gith Demon transports each sister into a world created by their own desires.
As near as I could make out from the news summaries, these Hilder people are a minority.
Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.
A completely different picture of a Numen than Jay had gotten from the absorption of the manual summary.
She then sketched a bare-bones summary of the Bubble culture, with its hunters, patchers, archives, and shifting shortages of men.
Julian Hammond reported to Celia with a summary of media attention to Peptide 7.