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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form;
- Example: "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
[syn: summary, sum-up]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. performed speedily and without formality;
- Example: "a summary execution"
- Example: "summary justice"
[syn: drumhead, summary]

2. briefly giving the gist of something;
- Example: "a short and compendious book"
- Example: "a compact style is brief and pithy"
- Example: "succinct comparisons"
- Example: "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
[syn: compendious, compact, succinct, summary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Summary \Sum"ma*ry\, a. [Cf. F. sommaire. See Sum.]
   1. Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow
      compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise;
      compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary
      process; to take summary vengeance.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Short; brief; concise; compendious; succinct.
        [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Summary \Sum"ma*ry\, n.; pl. Summaries. [F. sommaire, or L.
   summarium. See Summary, a.]
   A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an
   abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or
   substance of a fuller account.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

summary
    adj 1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary
           execution"; "summary justice" [syn: drumhead,
           summary]
    2: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and
       compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy";
       "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-
       ranging subject" [syn: compendious, compact, succinct,
       summary]
    n 1: a brief statement that presents the main points in a
         concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" [syn:
         summary, sum-up]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

141 Moby Thesaurus words for "summary":
   Spartan, abbreviated, abbreviation, abridged, abridgement,
   abridgment, abrupt, abstract, account, accounts, alert, apocope,
   aposiopestic, apt, body count, brief, brusque, capitulation,
   census, clipped, close, compact, compacted, compendious,
   compendium, compressed, compression, concise, condensation,
   condensed, consolidation, conspectus, contracted, copy, core,
   count, crisp, critique, curt, curtailment, curtal, curtate, cut,
   decisive, decurtate, digest, distillate, docked, drumhead,
   dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, elliptic,
   encapsulation, epigrammatic, epitome, epitomization, essence,
   expeditious, foreshortening, gist, gnomic, going over, head count,
   immediate, instant, instantaneous, inventory, iteration, laconic,
   little, low, main point, meat, nose count, outline, peremptory,
   perfunctory, pith, pithy, pointed, practicing, precis, prompt,
   pruned, punctual, quick, ready, reaffirmation, recap,
   recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting,
   reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory,
   reprint, reserved, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment,
   review, roundup, run-through, rundown, sententious, short,
   short and sweet, shortened, shortening, speedy, statement,
   substance, succinct, sum, sum and substance, summation, summing,
   summing up, summing-up, swift, syncope, synopsis, synopsized,
   synoptic, taciturn, telescoping, terse, tight, to the point,
   transient, truncated, truncation