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overview
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Word definitions for overview in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overview \O"ver*view`\, n. [Cf. Survey .] An inspection or overlooking. [Obs.] --Shak. A brief summary of a topic, situation, or plan; an outline or survey[2].
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An overview in policy debate is part of a speech which is flagged as not responding to the line-by-line arguments on the flow . An overview may be "global" if presented at the beginning of a speech or "local" if presented at the beginning of a position. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"survey, summary," 1934, American English, from over- + view (n.). In 17c. it meant "inspection, supervision," but this became obsolete.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE brief ▪ First we will give a brief overview of plant growth analysis. ▪ This chapter presents a brief overview of the major elements of the tax structure affecting financial planning and financial decision making. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a general summary of a subject; "the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"
Usage examples of overview.
This section is an overview of the ongoing research and development efforts by the NCAVC to automate the criminal personality profiling process.
After introducing herself, she gave a brief overview of the Maricopa Anti-Violence Empowerment Network, a group Joanna had never heard of before reading the newspaper article earlier that morning.
She provides an overview of the kinds of dinosaurs throughout the entire Mesozoic, and what the principle characteristics are by which we may distinguish them.
Marxist and techno-economic factors in the generation of worldviews, and an introduction to currents in postmodern thought, as set in the context of the spectrum overview.
Id like to give those of you who are into painting and ceramics a brief overview of jades importance in China.
The exhaustive overview by Gustave Reese had been on the shelf, likewise the study of Gregorian Chant by Willi Apel, but little else.
Most ofthe information they passed along was indeed43 44 Robert Asprin necessary when considered as an overview, and itwas presented simply, but with a real effort towardmakin' it interestin' enough to hold the attentionof us recruits.
He twiddled the autozoom on his electrobinoculars, to flip the enhanced image back and forth between a wide-angle overview and tightly focused close-ups of individual plants.
Segue: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and an overview of human cities, surreal architecture, bustling citizenry, spotless streets and parks, clear skies.
He began passing the vertex detector traces into the analog signal bus, and pulled out a blow-up overview of various detector slabs.
The first conference had provided a broad overview of the mind sciences, with presentations on scientific method, perception, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, developmental neurobiology, and evolution.
It digs into The Black Sun's operating system, rifles it for information, and then throws up a flat square map in front of his face, giving him a quick overview of who's here and whom they're talking to.
She was, by this time, thoroughly fed up with a day crammed to overflowing with meetings concerning budgets, personnel, ongoing project evaluation, central staff evaluation, expense record overviews and, of course, the chronic maintenance problems plaguing the new offices.
Rather, Foucault came to see that it has to be supplemented with Left-Hand approaches and a more balanced overview, including not only nondiscursive social practices but also hermeneutic interiors (or, at the least, a better interpretation of interpretation).
He acquired an overview of the methods of historical knowledge and the tools of historical research, and had his first practice in applying them.