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[ verb ] give a summary (of)

Examples

"he summed up his results" "I will now summarize"

Used in print

(Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)

When irregularity and variation prevent summarizing , information is written in complete detail .

Entries are summarized only_when by doing so the amount of information retained in the dictionary is reduced and the time required for dictionary operations is decreased .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade , or one column or grade apart , or two or three or four , we find these differences : * * f This distribution can be summarized by averaging the distance in grades apart : * * f ; which , divided by * * f gives a mean of 1.07 grades apart .

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[ verb ] be a summary of

Synonyms

sum_up summarise sum

Examples

"The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

Related terms

state sum_up summary

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