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summary
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As an adjective, summary means concise, brief or presented in a condensed form. As a noun, it means an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
Meanings of summary
6 meaningsadjective
Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
“A summary review is in the appendix.”
Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
“They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.”
legalPerformed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
“Summary justice is bad justice.”
noun
An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
“I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.”
“make a summary of the events”
A brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form
“he gave a summary of the conclusions”
Similar: sum-up
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).