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SUMMARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form
Example:
he gave a summary of the conclusions
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("summary" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summary"):
argument; literary argument (a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie)
capitulation (a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic)
compendium (a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work)
abridgement; abridgment; capsule; condensation (a shortened version of a written work)
conspectus (an overall summary)
curriculum vitae; CV; resume (a summary of your academic and work history)
line score (a summary of the scoring in a game (usually in tabular form))
abstract; outline; precis; synopsis (a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory)
overview (a general summary of a subject)
roundup (a summary list; as in e.g.)
resume; sketch; survey (short descriptive summary (of events))
rundown; summation; summing up (a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court))
Derivation:
summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))
summary (briefly giving the gist of something)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Briefly giving the gist of something
Example:
a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject
Synonyms:
compact; compendious; succinct; summary
Classified under:
Similar:
concise (expressing much in few words)
Derivation:
summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Performed speedily and without formality
Example:
summary justice
Synonyms:
drumhead; summary
Classified under:
Similar:
unofficial (not having official authority or sanction)
Context examples:
Common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) are used in study adverse event summaries and Investigational New Drug reports to the Food and Drug Administration.
(CDISC SDTM Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event Grade Terminology V3.0, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A written summary of the important points of a scientific article.
(Abstract, NCI Thesaurus)
"I could, if I tried." and she looked as if she would like doing it in the most summary style.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A method for performing probe-level normalization of signal intensity to generate summaries file using CNAT method.
(CNAT Probe Normalization Method, NCI Thesaurus)
It reflects requested budget for the first 12-month period and the summary budget for the entire proposed budget period.
(Consolidated Budget Request, NCI Thesaurus)
The reader may please to observe, that the following extract of many conversations I had with my master, contains a summary of the most material points which were discoursed at several times for above two years; his honour often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I farther improved in the Houyhnhnm tongue.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This was just such a summary view of the affair as Catherine could listen to; another sentence might have endangered her complaisance, and made her reply less rational; for soon were all her thinking powers swallowed up in the reflection of her own change of feelings and spirits since last she had trodden that well-known road.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
NOTE: This most commonly involves the statistical combination of summary statistics from the various trials, but the term is sometimes also used to refer to the combination of the raw data. [from ICH E9 Glossary]
(Meta-analysis, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
While it is encouraging that losses are lower than in the past, I would stop short of calling this 'good' news, said Dennis van Engelsdorp, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Maryland and project director for the Bee Informed Partnership, in a summary of the study.
(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)
NOTE(S): The term Amendment needs to be disambiguated since it sometimes refers to the amended version of the protocol (BRIDG's StudyProtocolDocumentVersion) and other times refers to the summary of changes (BRIDG's AmendmentChangeSummary) that are applied to a protocol to create a new version of the protocol.
(Amendment Change Summary Version Document, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
