Sekirov Dictionary

summary

/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

•
Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
- A summary review is in the appendix.
•
Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
•
Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
- The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.
- The summary executions caused outrage.

noun1

•
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 I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.

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