 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
summary
adjective
1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary
execution"; "summary justice" [syn: {drumhead}]
2: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and
compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy";
"succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a
wide-ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {compact}, {succinct}]
noun: a briefstatement that presents the main points in a concise
form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Summary \Sum"ma*ry\, adjective [Cf. F. sommaire. See {Sum}.]
1. Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow
compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise;
compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
2. Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary
process; to take summary vengeance.
Syn: Short; brief; concise; compendious; succinct.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Summary \Sum"ma*ry\, noun; pl. {Summaries}. [F. sommaire, or L.
summarium. See {Summary}, adjective]
A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an
abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or
substance of a fuller account.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "summary":
Spartan, abbreviated, abbreviation, abridged, abridgement,
abridgment, abrupt, abstract, account, accounts, alert, apocope,
aposiopestic, apt, body count, brief, brusque, capitulation,
census, clipped, close, compact, compacted, compendious,
compendium, compressed, compression, concise, condensation,
condensed, consolidation, conspectus, contracted, copy, core,
count, crisp, critique, curt, curtailment, curtal, curtate, cut,
decisive, decurtate, digest, distillate, docked, drumhead,
dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, elliptic,
encapsulation, epigrammatic, epitome, epitomization, essence,
expeditious, foreshortening, gist, gnomic, going over, head count,
immediate, instant, instantaneous, inventory, iteration, laconic,
little, low, main point, meat, nose count, outline, peremptory,
perfunctory, pith, pithy, pointed, practicing, precis, prompt,
pruned, punctual, quick, ready, reaffirmation, recap,
recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting,
reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory,
reprint, reserved, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment,
review, roundup, run-through, rundown, sententious, short,
short and sweet, shortened, shortening, speedy, statement,
substance, succinct, sum, sum and substance, summation, summing,
summing up, summing-up, swift, syncope, synopsis, synopsized,
synoptic, taciturn, telescoping, terse, tight, to the point,
transient, truncated, truncation
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