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Definition: Summarise |
SummariseVerb1. Give a summary (of); "he summed up his results". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "summarise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
"Summarise" is a common misspelling or typo for: summaries, summarize. |
Synonyms: SummariseSynonyms: resume (v), sum up (v), summarize (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: summarised balance sheets (business, economics). |
| "Summarise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 74.90% of the time. "Summarise" is used about 251 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 74.9% | 188 | 22,417 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.51% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.59% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 251 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "summarise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 总ç»" (Summaries, summarization, summarize, summary). (various references) | ||||
Greek | συγκεφαλαίωνω, συνοψίζω (brief, condense, digest, epitomize, sum up, summarize, tabulate). (various references) | ||||
Italian | sintetizzare (summarize, synthesize, synthetize), ricapitolare (recap, recapitulate, run over, run through, sum up, summarize), riassumere (abridge, abstract, brief, digest, epitomise, epitomize, reassume, recapitulate, re-engage, sum up, summarize, take on again). (various references) | ||||
Korean | ìš"약하ì‹ì‹œìš" (summarize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ummarisesay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "summarise": summarised, summarises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: summaries. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-m-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: amusers, assumer, immures, maimers, masseur, massier, misuser, mussier, rummies, sauries, simmers, summers, surmise, uremias. | |
-3 letters: aimers, amuser, amuses, arises, armies, assume, assure, imaums, immure, issuer, maimer, mamies, marses, masers, miasms, mimers, misers, misuse, musers, raises, ramies, remiss, serais, serums, sieurs, simars, simmer, smarms, smears, summae, summas, summer, urases, uremia. | |
-4 letters: aimer, amies, amirs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-m-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: summarised, summarises, summarizes. | |
+2 letters: amateurisms, rheumatisms, summarizers, suprematism. | |
+3 letters: magisteriums, suprematisms, tautomerisms. | |
+4 letters: praseodymiums. | |
+5 letters: mismeasurement, summersaulting. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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