Summarize
['sʌməraɪz]
Definition
(verb.) be a summary of; 'The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper'.
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
Checker: Polly
Examples
- A recent writer (Pearson, 1900) has attempted to summarize Bacon's classification of the different bra nches of learning. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The historical development and evolution of the telegraph may be now summarized:-- 1. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The table herewith given summarizes the figures that have just been presented, and affords an idea of the totals affected by the genius of this one man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It summarizes and dismisses the essential evils of the Great Power system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Malcolm