overview
English
Etymology
over- + view
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/
Noun
overview (plural overviews)
- A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
- 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:
- With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
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- An inspection.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
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Translations
brief summary, as of a book or a presentation
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Verb
overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)
- To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
- 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice, →ISBN, page 313:
- Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.
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