SUMMARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summarise mean? 

• SUMMARISE (verb)
  The verb SUMMARISE has 2 senses:

1. be a summary of

2. give a summary (of)

  Familiarity information: SUMMARISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMARISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they summarise    ... he / she / it summarises   
Past simple: summarised   
Past participle: summarised   
-ing form: summarising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a summary of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

sum; sum up; summarise; summarize

Context example:

The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper

Hypernyms (to "summarise" is one way to...):

say; state; tell (express in words)

Verb group:

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

summarisation (the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give a summary (of)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize

Context example:

I will now summarize

Hypernyms (to "summarise" is one way to...):

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

Verb group:

sum; sum up; summarise; summarize (be a summary of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "summarise"):

abstract (give an abstract (of))

precis (make a summary (of))

docket (make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list)

recap; recapitulate (summarize briefly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

summarisation (the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly)

summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

 Context examples 

It was in the summer of ’89, not long after my marriage, that the events occurred which I am now about to summarise.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)