summary

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  summārius, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin summa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: summery

Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

   A summary review is in the appendix.

2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

   They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

3. (law) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

   Summary justice is bad justice.

Derived terms

• summarily

Translations

concise

• Catalan: sumari
• Czech: stručný (cs)
• Finnish: tiivistetty (fi), lyhyt (fi)
• Georgian: მოკლე გადმოცემა (moḳle gadmocema), შეჯამება (šeǯameba)
• German: zusammenfassend (de)
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• Irish: achomair
• Japanese: 概要 (ja)
• Portuguese: sumário (pt), conciso (pt), resumido (pt), resumo (pt)
• Spanish: sumario (es)
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)
• Walloon: rascourti m

performed speedily

• Catalan: sumari
• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
• Polish: doraźny (pl) m
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• Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumo (pt)
• Spanish: apurado (es), a todo dar
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)

cutting the procedures of a normal trial

• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
• Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumir (pt)
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• Spanish: sumario (es)
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} summier (nl)
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• French: ^{(please verify)} sommaire (fr)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} estratto (it) m, ^{(please verify)} compendio (it) m, ^{(please verify)} sommario (it) m

Noun

summary (plural summaries)

1. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

Synonyms

• upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)
• Thesaurus:summary

Derived terms

• executive summary
• in summary
• management summary
• metasummary
• microsummary
• midsummary
• summarize
• summary diligence
• summary judgment
• summary offence
• summary proceedings

 

Translations

condensed presentation

• Arabic: خُلَاصَة f (ḵulāṣa), مُلَخَّص m (mulaḵḵaṣ)
• Armenian: ամփոփում (hy) (ampʻopʻum), համառոտ շարադրանք (hamaṙot šaradrankʻ)
• Bulgarian: резюме (bg) n (rezjume)
• Catalan: resum (ca) m, sumari m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 摘要 (zaak⁶ jiu³)

  Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào)

• Czech: souhrn (cs) m, shrnutí n
• Danish: resume (da) n, resumé n
• Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, overzicht (nl) n, opsomming (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: yhteenveto (fi), lyhennelmä (fi), tiivistelmä (fi)
• French: résumé (fr) m, sommaire (fr) m, récapitulation (fr) f, compte rendu (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Zusammenfassung (de) f
• Greek: περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi), σύνοψη (el) f (sýnopsi)
• Hebrew: תקציר ?
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: rezumo (io)
• Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú m
• Italian: riassunto (it) m
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: breviārium n
• Malay: ringkasan
• Maori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopototanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: resumé n

  Bokmål: oppsummering m or f, sammendrag (no) n

  Nynorsk: oppsummering f

• Polish: streszczenie (pl) n, skrót (pl) m, podsumowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: resumo (pt) m, sumário (pt) m
• Russian: резюме́ (ru) m pl (rezjumé)
• Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m, geàrr-chunntas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: резѝме̄ m, саже́так m

  Roman: rezìmē (sh) m, sažétak (sh) m

• Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m
• Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c
• Tagalog: buod
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: özet (tr)
• Ukrainian: пі́дсумок m (pídsumok), стислий виклад m (styslyj vyklad)
• Vietnamese: tóm tắt (vi)

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• (deprecated template usage) Telugu: సారాంశము (te) (sārāṁśamu)
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