Definition of Summary

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Summary

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.

Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

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Summary Quotations

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.
John Sherman Cooper

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers Anthony

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing

I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
John Sherman Cooper

Summary Translations

summary in German is kurz zusammengefasst, Inhaltsangabe
summary in Italian is raccolta
summary in Latin is epitome, epitoma


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