SUMMING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summing up mean? 

• SUMMING UP (noun)
  The noun SUMMING UP has 1 sense:

1. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

  Familiarity information: SUMMING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rundown; summation; summing up

Hypernyms ("summing up" is a kind of...):

sum-up; summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

It was at his own very earnest request that they inscribed He fought the good fight upon his tombstone, and though I cannot doubt that he had Black Bank and Crab Wilson in his mind when he asked it, yet none who knew him would grudge its spiritual meaning as a summing up of his clean and manly life.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)