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[edit]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.
- (rare) A view from above.
- (obsolete) 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, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
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[edit]brief summary, as of a book or a presentation
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Verb
[edit]overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)
- (transitive) To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
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