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Summary   /sˈəməri/   Listen
noun
Summary  n.  (pl. summaries)  A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.


adjective
Summary  adj.  
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.
Synonyms: Short; brief; concise; compendious; succinct.





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"Summary" Quotes from Famous Books



... the not so sure, the merely possible, and the false. Having accurate and verified data, scientific method then proceeds to classify them, and this is the organizing of knowledge. The final process involves a summary of the facts and their relations by some simple expression or formula. A good illustration of a scientific principle is the natural law of gravitation. It states simply that two bodies of matter attract ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
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— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp
... as the first mover in a system of frauds, annoyed, but also perplexed my mother exceedingly. For an argument that shaped itself into a rule-of-three illustration seemed really to wear too candid an aspect for summary and absolute rejection. ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... to some one, a reference to an expected speaker, or a word indicating the part of your subject of which you will not treat, or give a very quick summary of what you ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger
... very valuable, the proprietors down the country agreed to afford some additional passage for fish when the river is open, providing they will protect the spawning fish during close-time. A new Act has been passed, with heavy penalties and summary powers of recovery. Some persons are cited under it to-day; and a peculiar licence of poaching having distinguished the district of late years, we shall be likely to have some disturbance. They have been holding a ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott


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