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Definition of Summarise
1. Verb. Be a summary of. "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
Related verbs: Resume, Sum Up, Summarize
Generic synonyms: Say, State, Tell
Derivative terms: Summation, Summarisation, Summarization
2. Verb. Give a summary (of). "I will now summarize"
Generic synonyms: Ingeminate, Iterate, Reiterate, Repeat, Restate, Retell
Specialized synonyms: Abstract, Precis, Docket, Recap, Recapitulate
Related verbs: Sum, Sum Up, Summarize
Derivative terms: Resume, Summarisation, Summary, Summarization, Summary
Definition of Summarise
1. Verb. To prepare a summary of something ¹
2. Verb. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Summarise
1. [v -RISED, -RISING, -RISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summarise
Literary usage of Summarise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1899)
"... yet are nothing but the inevitable outcome of the endeavour to summarise
phenomena in terms of motion. A moral drawn from the Pythagoreans. ..."
2. Questions on the Philosophy of Art by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"summarise the respects in which Art may be regarded as parasitical. ...
summarise some of the more or less remote features of the impersonal environment ..."
3. Questions on the Philosophy of Art by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1897)
"summarise the respects in which Art may be regarded as parasitical. ...
summarise some of the more or less remote features of the impersonal environment ..."
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