overview
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Noun[edit]
overview (plural overviews)
- A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
- 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:
- With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
- An inspection.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
Translations[edit]
brief summary, as of a book or a presentation
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Verb[edit]
overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)
- To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.