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summary

adj
/ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).

  1. derived from summa — “total, sum”
  2. derived from summārius
  3. inherited from summary

Definitions

  1. Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form

    Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.

    • Near-synonym: abstractive
    • A summary review is in the appendix.

  2. Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.

    • Near-synonym: extrajudicial
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

  3. Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid…

    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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. 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.
      • make a summary of the events

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at summary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at summary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at summary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA