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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overview
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.
▪ After providing a brief overview of the chronology of urban unrest during the 1980s, the chapter concentrates on two main themes.
▪ Fisher made notes as each member of the management committee took turns presenting a brief overview.
▪ What emerges from this brief overview is the dominant role of the clergy in Southern education.
▪ This brief historical overview helps explain a number of later relationships.
▪ For reasons which will become apparent, I will not provide more than a brief overview of this approach.
▪ It is useful, therefore, to provide a brief overview of some of these studies.
comprehensive
▪ Nevertheless, the report acknowledges some uncertainties and continues the tradition of the series in presenting a reasonably comprehensive and balanced overview.
▪ Vocabulary Vocabulary provides a clear and comprehensive overview of this important area of language teaching.
▪ This summary gives the reader a good and comprehensive overview of the seminar.
▪ It is not a comprehensive overview of all aspects of a complex set of issues.
general
▪ This extends the earlier more general overview on education and training for online searching written by Wanger in 1979.
▪ The book consists of seven thematic chapters, beginning with a general overview of Piero's career.
▪ This system incorporates several higher level knowledge sources and a general overview of the system is provided in figure 1.1. 1.4.1.
good
▪ The chapter on applications gives a good overview on optical, mechanical and chemical microsystems and components.
▪ Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 give a good overview of the measurement techniques available today.
▪ The chapter provides a good overview of enzymes, including mechanisms, kinetics, and inhibition.
▪ This summary gives the reader a good and comprehensive overview of the seminar.
▪ In the preceding example, by seeing p1, p2, and p3 the reader gets a good overview of hypertext.
▪ The introductory chapter covers a wide range of topics, but disappointingly does not give a very good overview of the techniques.
▪ This is a good overview of the entire topic of economic development and democracy.
historical
▪ This brief historical overview helps explain a number of later relationships.
▪ In writing his sweeping historical overview of the region, Shoumatoff relies heavily on other published histories.
■ VERB
give
▪ In this book the author gives an overview of flow injection analysis as applied to the analysis of pharmaceuticals and related products.
▪ The book gives us a tantalizing overview, taking advantage of subject matter at its most sensual.
▪ First we will give a brief overview of plant growth analysis.
▪ Perhaps you could give me an overview of your concerns.
▪ The purpose of the semantic net is to give people an overview of or handle on the content of the text.
▪ I had in mind to give you an overview first of all.
▪ The chapter on applications gives a good overview on optical, mechanical and chemical microsystems and components.
▪ The following section give an overview of each system's approach.
provide
▪ After providing a brief overview of the chronology of urban unrest during the 1980s, the chapter concentrates on two main themes.
▪ All three plans are displayed side-by-side, providing a welcome overview and an idea of how they might meld.
▪ There is also a chapter on special sample introduction techniques together with an introductory chapter providing an overview of analytical atomic spectrometry.
▪ Table 2. 5 provides an overview of the cable strategy.
▪ The first section provides an overview of provision and services in 1983.
▪ In this chapter, we will first provide an overview of the different parts of a software application architecture.
▪ The chapter provides a good overview of enzymes, including mechanisms, kinetics, and inhibition.
▪ This section will provide an overview of the popular applications found on the Internet.
take
▪ Above all it took an overview of the art world's ideological stance.
▪ Inpart one we shall take an overview of the topic and look in some detail at the direct use of solar power.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Before we can consider the details we need to have an overview of the whole situation.
▪ The aim of the first chapter is to provide a general overview of the subjects that will be covered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A full overview of the new rules is not included in Chapter 12 but their salient provisions are noted here.
▪ A strategic overview on the issue would be published in an autumn white paper.
▪ Alongside the factual overview for managers, trainers are concerned to sharpen the managers' interpersonal skills.
▪ Obviously, this overview has been written on the basis of very outdated information.
▪ The chapter on applications gives a good overview on optical, mechanical and chemical microsystems and components.
▪ These kids will have an overview of the market.
▪ This extends the earlier more general overview on education and training for online searching written by Wanger in 1979.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overview

Overview \O"ver*view`\, n. [Cf. Survey.]

  1. An inspection or overlooking. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. A brief summary of a topic, situation, or plan; an outline or survey[2].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overview

"survey, summary," 1934, American English, from over- + view (n.). In 17c. it meant "inspection, supervision," but this became obsolete.

Wiktionary
overview

n. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation. vb. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.

WordNet
overview

n. a general summary of a subject; "the treasurer gave a brief overview of the financial consequences"

Wikipedia
Overview (debate)

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.

Overviews typically list the order a debater's speech will be given in. For instance, On-Case, Co-op Disadvantage, Spending Disadvantage, Weapon Disadvantage would be an expected overview.

Debaters will usually inform the judge where they will be giving an overview before they start a speech because it can make it harder to flow the speech. A small minority of judges dislike this practice and will start speech time when a debater starts giving this order.

Many judges dislike overviews because, since many are scripted before the round begins, they tend to be non-responsive or repetitive and are often long. However, most judges and coaches support the practice for arguments which cannot be placed anywhere on the line-by-line or that need to be flagged for their importance.

The above is also informally known as a "road map"

Another form of an overview is of specifically in the section of the speech(i.e. Topicality, Kritik, Disadvantage, Counter-Plan, etc). This is commonly announced before the debater's speech and will signpost an overview.

The overview usually consists of star/main arguments being made and more than likely tend to contain extended evidence or authors. This practice is used to elaborate an argument and/or bring it back up in order for the judge to be aware of the main arguments being made by a team.

Category:Policy debate

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.