Precis

Definition: Precis

Precis

Noun

1. A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.

Verb

1. Make a precis (of).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "precis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

PRECIS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Precis

Compendium

Noun: compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.

Crosswords: Precis

Romanian (accurate, accurately, certain, clean-cut, clockwork, dead, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, distinct, due, even, exact, exactly, flat, just, literal, narrow, positive, precise, regular, sharp, sound, specifically, straight, strict, truly, unambiguous), Swedish (accurate, bang, dead, even, exact, exactly, just, on time, Plumb, precise, precisely, punctual, quite, that's the idea, that's true, to a turn, veracious, very).

References

• Precis, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Larousse De Poche: Dictionnaire Noms Communs, Noms Propres Precis De Grammaire (reference)

• Physics Precis (reference)

• Precis De Grammaire Francaise (reference)

• Precis IV: American Architecture in Search of Traditions (reference)

• Precis of Thoughts on Thought (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Precis - State Edition (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "precis": precis writer. Additional references.

Albanian

përmbledhje (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, argument, budget, compendium, condensation, corpus, Garland, Miscellanea, miscellany, peroration, reader, summary, summing up, synopsis), përmbledh (abridge, abstract, brief, collect, compress, condense, recapitulate, sum up, summarize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موجز (abridged, brief, briefly, compact, concise, digest, epitomized, laconic, outline, short, summarized, summary), ‏مختصر (abbreviated, abridged, brief, compendious, concise, outline, shortened, summarized, summary), ‏مجمل (outlined, summarized, summary, summed up), ‏خلاصة (abstract, docket, epitome, essence, extract, extraction, gist, outline, pith, quintessence, recap, recapitulation, resume, substance, summary, summation), ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, outline, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish), ‏إجمال (brevity, lump, summation, summing up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

резюме (abridgement, abstract, analysis, argument, capsule, conspectus, digest, epitome, memorandum, recap, recapitulation, round up, run down, summary, synopsis), резюмирам (epitomize, recap, recapitulate, resume, skeletonize, summarize), кратко изложение (analysis, capsule, compendium, digest, summary), конспектирам (epitomize), конспект (abstract, conspectus, epitome, examination paper, interrogatory, questionary, questionnaire, summary), извлечение (abstract, excerpt), излагам накратко. (various references)

Czech

výtah (compendium, digest, elevator, lift, summary, syllabus), souhrn (aggregate, summary, summation), konspekt (abstract, conspectus, digest). (various references)

Farsi 

چکیده مطلب , تلخیص , خلاصه نوشتن , خلاصه رءوس مطالب (Epitome). (various references)

French

précis (precise), résumé, faire un résumé, faire précis de. (various references)

German

Inhaltsangabe (epitome, summary). (various references)

Greek 

περίληψη (abridgement, abstract, brief, comprisal, digest, docket, inclusion, prospectus, resume, subsumption, summary, syllabus, synopsis). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסכם (amount, conclude, finalize, summarize, totalize, wind up). (various references)

Hungarian

röviden összefoglal (recapitulate, to boil down, to précis, to recap, to recapitulate), rövid kivonat (brief, précis), rövid összefoglalás (compendium, contraction, précis, short). (various references)

Indonesian

ringkasan (compendium, epitome, summary, synopsis). (various references)

Italian

riassunto (abbreviation, abridgement, abstract, brief, digest, summary). (various references)

Manx

kymrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecispray.(various references)

Portuguese

sumário (abridgement, abstract, brief, briefs, compendium, content, digest, docket, playbill, recess, resume, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis), resumo (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, digest, docket, epitome, excerpt, extract, playbill, resume, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis), resumir (abstract, boil down, brief, compact, compress, condense, digest, epitomize, extract, resume, shorten, sum up, summarize, wind up), epítome (epitome, summary, synopsis). (various references)

Romanian

scurtã expunere, rezuma (abbreviate, abstract, brief, capsule, digest, epitomize, recapitulate, resume, summarize). (various references)

Russian 

составлять конспект, краткое изложение (digest, summary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sažet prilog, načiniti izvod, izvod (derivative, excerpt, extract). (various references)

Spanish

resumen (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, conspectus, recap, recapitulation, resumé, resume, summation, summery, summing up). (various references)

Swedish

sammanfatta (encapsulate, epitomize, sum up, summarize), sammandrag (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, brief, digest, epitome, summary, synopsis). (various references)

Turkish

özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), özet (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, compress, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, gist, outline, resume, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis). (various references)

Ukrainian

реферат (abstract), конспект (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, epitome, outline, recap, recapitulation, scheme, summary, syllabus, workbook). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "precis": precise, precised, precisely, preciseness, precisenesses, preciser, precises, precisest, precisian, precisians, precising, precision, precisionist, precisionists, precisions. (additional references)

Words containing "precis": imprecise, imprecisely, impreciseness, imprecisenesses, imprecision, imprecisions, overprecise, ultraprecise, ultraprecision, ultraprecisions. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cripes, prices, spicer.

-1 letter: cires, cries, cripe, crisp, epics, peris, piers, price, pries, prise, rices, ripes, scrip, sepic, speir, spice, spier, spire.

-2 letters: ceps, cire, cris, epic, ices, ires, pecs, peri, pice, pics, pier, pies, recs, reis, reps, rice, ripe, rips, rise, sice, sipe, sire, spec, spic.

-3 letters: cep, cis, ers, ice, ire, pec, per, pes, pic.

+1 letter: ceriphs, ciphers, copiers, crisped, crispen, crisper, pickers, piecers, pierces, pincers, precise, pricers, princes, recipes, scrapie, spacier, spermic, spheric, spicers, spicery, spicier, splicer, triceps.

+2 letters: airscape, airspace, aspheric, calipers, caprices, chippers, chirpers, clippers, comprise, conspire, crappies, creepies, crepiest, crimpers, crimples, cripples, crispate, crispens, crispers, crispest, crispier, croppies, cuprites, empirics, epicarps, epicures, forcipes, incorpse, misprice, parchesi, parecism, paretics, peracids, percoids, perisarc, pickeers, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, piercers, pinchers, pinscher, piracies, pitchers, practise, precious, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, predicts, prescind, preslice, priciest, prickers, prickets, prickles, princess, pumicers, receipts, recopies, replicas, reprices, rescript, resplice, sapremic, scrapies, scrimped, scrimper, scripted, scripter, seraphic, spherics, spiracle, splicers, sprucier, surplice.