overview

English

Etymology

over + view

Noun

Wikipedia overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

Pronunciation

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Translations

brief summary, as of a book or a presentation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概觀 (cmn), 概观 (cmn) (gàiguān)

• Czech: přehled (cs) m
• Dutch: overzicht (nl)
• Esperanto: superrigardo (eo)
• Finnish: yleiskatsaus (fi), yleiskuva (fi)
• French: vue d'ensemble (fr), résumé (fr), synthèse (fr)
• German: Übersicht (de) f, Überblick (de) m
• Greek: επισκόπηση (el) (episkópisi) f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can

• Irish: forbhreathnú (ga) m, léargas ginearálta (ga) m, foramharc (ga) m, osamharc (ga) m
• Italian: visione d'insieme (it) m
• Japanese: 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō)
• Latin: breviarium (la) n
• Persian: نمای کلی (fa)
• Portuguese: visão geral (pt) f, breve resumo (pt) m
• Russian: обозрение (ru) (obozrénije) n
• Spanish: descripción (es) f
• Turkish: genel bakış, kısaca gözden geçirme

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [1], ISBN 0870730150, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.