summary

See also: Summary

summary - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈsʌməɹi/
  • Homophone: summery

Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

  1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
    • A summary review is in the appendix.
  2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  3. (law) Performed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
    • Summary justice is bad justice.

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Translations

  • Bulgarian: безцеремонен (bg) (bezceremonen)
  • Catalan: sumari (ca)
  • Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
  • French: sommaire (fr)
  • Hungarian: (accelerated) gyorsított, (of jurisdiction, justice, court, proceedings, procedure, esp. in military law) rögtönítélő
  • Italian: sommario (it) m, sommaria f
  • Polish: doraźny (pl) m
  • Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumo (pt)
  • Spanish: apurado (es), a todo dar
  • Swedish: summarisk (sv)

Noun

summary (plural summaries)

  1. 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

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