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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
summarize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The key nursing responsibilities involved in immediate post-operative care can be summarized as follows: 1.
▪ The litany of problems they revealed to me can best be summarized as follows: High costs-so high they were not competitive.
▪ The authors define five recruitment strategies which can be summarized as follows: 1 educational qualifications perform a determinative function.
▪ However, its operation can be summarized as follows.
■ NOUN
chapter
▪ The final chapter summarizes the key themes in the book.
▪ The contents of this chapter are summarized in Table 12.2.
▪ This chapter summarizes the basic insights that have emerged regarding political gladiators.
▪ Those chapters summarize his main concerns, which are then illustrated in the narrative of the text with descriptions of individual institutions.
figure
▪ Finally, at departmental or agency level, the funds are allocated. Figure 4.4 summarizes this process.
▪ The process of overaccumulation described in this chapter is complex. Figure 11.8 summarizes the various forces at work.
finding
▪ The report itself has been so exhaustively examined that there is no need here to summarize all of its findings.
position
▪ Pilger was called in, and he summarized his position.
▪ Leibniz summarized his position of physical theory in regard to Cartesianism in a letter to Bouvet of 2 December 1697.
▪ Here we will summarize the position briefly.
process
▪ Figure 21.6 illustrates and summarizes the entrainment process described in this section.
result
▪ Table 3 summarizes their overall results.
▪ Table 111. 1 summarizes the results.
table
▪ Summary Table 4.5 summarizes the ` comparison of comparisons' on the relationship between economic development and democracy presented in this chapter.
▪ Some of the main conclusions from Table 3.3 are summarized in Fig. 3.8 and 3.9.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I wrote a letter summarizing the main points we had discussed.
▪ The interview was summarized on the front page of the newspaper.
▪ The report was detailed and thorough; it didn't just summarize.
▪ Your final paragraph should summarize the main points of your essay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Complex information is summarized through diagrams.
▪ Every Friday take ten or fifteen minutes to summarize all of your achievements for the week.
▪ It also summarizes reports of mysterious aerial explosions over metropolitan areas drawn from newspapers and magazines.
▪ Let us summarize some of the business issues concerned with network infrastructure investments.
▪ Table 3. 4 summarizes the connection capabilities and technology.
▪ Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution.
▪ The important properties of these three principal volcanic rock groups can be summarized in simple tables.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summarize

Summarize \Sum"ma*rize\, v. t. To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
--Chambers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
summarize

1837, American English, from summary + -ize. Related: Summarized; summarizing.

Wiktionary
summarize

vb. 1 To prepare a summary of something 2 To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review

WordNet
summarize

  1. v. give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarise, resume]

  2. be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarise, sum, sum up]

Wikipedia
Summarize

"Summarize" is the first single released from Australian indie rock band Little Birdy's third studio album, Confetti. It was released on 10 April 2009 and the single made it to number 54 on the ARIA charts.

Two versions were released: a CD single featuring the track "One in a Million", and an iTunes version which featured the track "Sorrow" instead. Additionally, the song "Brother" was moved from Track 5 (CD) to Track 4 (iTunes).

Usage examples of "summarize".

His earliest articles focused on bipolar disorder, summarizing extensive work he did with manic-depressives.

He summarized his problems in retracing the origins of the heterochronic genes, told of his encounter with the warning bells in the file from the codicil and the elusive footage of the voracious underwater monster.

All the important features of the story are summarized in Hirst, 216-224.

Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals.

Radio announcers immediately summarized the rescript and its import in everyday language.

Baldwin to describe the scene he had found the night before, or to summarize the evidence he had been given by the bottler and first finder.

While the chief work of the liver is perhaps not that of excretion, its functions may here be summarized.

Breen summarizes how parodists and pastiche writers have treated EQ in his article on p.

Summarizing in the Parallelogram its Aspect and of the Fortune or Experience of the Querist that it will Report.

It should be noted first that the smut fungus is living at the expense of its host plant, the wheat, and its effect on the host may be summarized as follows: The consumption of food, the destruction of food in the sporulating process, and the stimulating or retarding effect on normal physiological processes.

I do want you to thank me for allowing you to make the acquaintance of the famous Sancho Panza, his squire, in whom, in my opinion, I have summarized for you all the squirely wit and charm scattered throughout the great mass of inane books of chivalry.

Notes that summarize untranslated parts of her autobiography show that Eve understood what was happening to her people quite as clearly as the Mad Prophet did.

Bruchard says that this phrase defines and summarizes the Byronic Don Juan.

It has been our purpose to briefly summarize and to arrange in order the records of the most curious, bizarre, and abnormal cases that are found in medical literature of all ages and all languages--a thaumatographia medica.

The Darwinian theory may be summarized thus: The Darwinian Hypothesis.