Definitions for summaries

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summaries sum·ma·ry

Spelling: [suhm-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈsʌm ə ri/

Summaries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in summaries (aeimmrssu).

Definitions for summaries

noun

1. a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
2. a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.

adjective

1. brief and comprehensive; concise.
2. direct and prompt; unceremoniously fast:
3. (of legal proceedings, jurisdiction, etc.) conducted without, or exempt from, the various steps and delays of a formal trial.
4. brief and comprehensive; concise.
5. direct and prompt; unceremoniously fast:
6. (of legal proceedings, jurisdiction, etc.) conducted without, or exempt from, the various steps and delays of a formal trial.

Origin of summaries

1400-50; late Middle English Latin summārium, equivalent to summ(a) sum + -ārium -ary

Examples for summaries

Each student should be quizzed on his reading, or should be required to give a summary of it.

Instead, the Lift monitors posture all day long and gives a daily summary of performance.

Officially this law is the summary Offences and Sentencing Amendment Bill.

You should look at our summary of benefits,” she continued, directing me to a handy online chart of “coverage examples.

He had not reckoned upon being dealt with in this summary fashion.

As an example of the differences in yield, a summary of the data for 1911 may be given.

They prepared a summary of the tale, and then enlarged the summary.

But the lawyer deleted that line from the final version of the summary.

I have recently established a web site containing a summary of what actually will be done within the purview of our research.

The summary of a lesson, given by the class, is a test of the effectiveness of instruction.

Each student should be quizzed on his reading, or should be required to give a summary of it.

Officially this law is the summary Offences and Sentencing Amendment Bill.

As an example of the differences in yield, a summary of the data for 1911 may be given.

You should look at our summary of benefits,” she continued, directing me to a handy online chart of “coverage examples.

Instead, the Lift monitors posture all day long and gives a daily summary of performance.

The summary of a lesson, given by the class, is a test of the effectiveness of instruction.

I have recently established a web site containing a summary of what actually will be done within the purview of our research.

But the lawyer deleted that line from the final version of the summary.

He had not reckoned upon being dealt with in this summary fashion.

They prepared a summary of the tale, and then enlarged the summary.