from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
intransitive & transitive verb To make a summary or make a summary of.
from The Century Dictionary.
To make a summary or abstract of; reduce to or express in a summary; state or represent briefly. Also spelled summarise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb To prepare a summary of something
verb To give a recapitulation of the salientfacts; to recapitulate or review
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb give a summary (of)
verb be a summary of
Etymologies
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From English summary + -ize.
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Read them in Japanese, summarize if you want, but more importantly, add something unique to the discussion-something personal and NEW that you can really claim as your own.
Astral Project, written by marginal, illustrated by Syuji Takeya: This series is very difficult to summarize, which is almost always indicative of a title I really like.
Astral Project, written by marginal, illustrated by Syuji Takeya: This series is very difficult to summarize, which is almost always indicative of a title I really like.
To just kind of summarize my thoughts, I think that the shadow selves are based on doubts that the characters have, but significantly exaggerated for the entertainment of those watching.
Writing a hook is not the same as writing a novel, and I see that in trying to "summarize" the whole thing, I ended up sounding too detached and academic.
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