SUMMARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summarize mean? 

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

1. give a summary (of)

2. be a summary of

  Familiarity information: SUMMARIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they summarize    ... he / she / it summarizes   
Past simple: summarized   
Past participle: summarized   
-ing form: summarizing   

Sense 1

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 "summarize" 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 "summarize"):

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:

summarization (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)

Sense 2

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 "summarize" 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:

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

 Context examples 

The brief identifier that summarizes the design and purpose of a biomedical research investigation on non-human subjects.

(Nonclinical Study Title, NCI Thesaurus)

To predict incoming space weather, scientists summarize current conditions on the sun twice daily.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

Summarizes probe sets using Tukey's median polish procedure.

(Bioconductor caAffy Median Polish Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Based on the evidence presented, the panel writes a report summarizing the findings, which is made available to the public.

(Consensus Development Program, NCI Dictionary)

Summarizes probe sets using the 'player out' statistical algorithm.

(Bioconductor caAffy Player Out Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The amphipathic helix motif is characterized by a repeating pattern of polar (P) and non-polar (N) side-chains that can be summarized as PxNPPNx.

(Amphipathic Alpha Helix, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who retrieves and summarizes information.

(Abstractor, NCI Thesaurus)

Summarizes probe sets using the robust average 1-step Tukey biweight algorithm.

(Bioconductor caAffy MAS Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Summarizes probe sets using the model described in Li and Wong (2001) to a probe set with I chips and J probes.

(Bioconductor caAffy Li Wong Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Summarizes probe sets by computing the average difference between all PM and MM probes in a probe set.

(Bioconductor caAffy Average Difference Probe Summary Method, NCI Thesaurus)