summarise
pronunciation
How to pronounce summarise in British English:
UK ['sʌməraɪz]
How to pronounce summarise in American English:
US ['sʌməˌraɪz]
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- Verb:
- be a summary of
- give a summary (of)
Word Origin
- summarise (v.)
- chiefly British English spelling of summarize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Summarised; summarising; summarisation.
Example
- 1. Find more than one way of getting your point across and summarise frequently .
- 2. One way to summarise their relationship is that he is the dreamer , and she is the pragmatist .
- 3. Messrs johnson and kwak deftly summarise this history before moving on to their description of how modern wall street-the most powerful and concentrated financial sector in the country 's history-both created the financial crisis and ensured a bail-out for its own benefit .
- 4. Its title was " the magical number seven plus or minus two : some limits on our capacity for processing information " and in it miller set out to summarise some earlier experiments which attempted to measure the limits of people 's short-term memory .
- 5. Other touches , such as allowing users to easily view the best negative or positive reviews , as well as some handy charts that summarise review ratings , make the large number of reviews manageable for users and more useful for amazon .