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summarise


Past participle: summarised
Gerund: summarising

Imperative
summarise
summarise
Present
I summarise
you summarise
he/she/it summarises
we summarise
you summarise
they summarise
Preterite
I summarised
you summarised
he/she/it summarised
we summarised
you summarised
they summarised
Present Continuous
I am summarising
you are summarising
he/she/it is summarising
we are summarising
you are summarising
they are summarising
Present Perfect
I have summarised
you have summarised
he/she/it has summarised
we have summarised
you have summarised
they have summarised
Past Continuous
I was summarising
you were summarising
he/she/it was summarising
we were summarising
you were summarising
they were summarising
Past Perfect
I had summarised
you had summarised
he/she/it had summarised
we had summarised
you had summarised
they had summarised
Future
I will summarise
you will summarise
he/she/it will summarise
we will summarise
you will summarise
they will summarise
Future Perfect
I will have summarised
you will have summarised
he/she/it will have summarised
we will have summarised
you will have summarised
they will have summarised
Future Continuous
I will be summarising
you will be summarising
he/she/it will be summarising
we will be summarising
you will be summarising
they will be summarising
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been summarising
you have been summarising
he/she/it has been summarising
we have been summarising
you have been summarising
they have been summarising
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been summarising
you will have been summarising
he/she/it will have been summarising
we will have been summarising
you will have been summarising
they will have been summarising
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been summarising
you had been summarising
he/she/it had been summarising
we had been summarising
you had been summarising
they had been summarising
Conditional
I would summarise
you would summarise
he/she/it would summarise
we would summarise
you would summarise
they would summarise
Past Conditional
I would have summarised
you would have summarised
he/she/it would have summarised
we would have summarised
you would have summarised
they would have summarised
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.summarise - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
sum up, summarize, summarise, resume - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
say, state, tell - express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
2.summarise - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"
abstract - give an abstract (of)
precis - make a summary (of)
docket - make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
recap, recapitulate - summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
sum, summarise, summarize, sum up - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
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Translations
يُلَخِّص
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summary

(ˈsaməri) plural ˈsummaries noun
a shortened form of a statement, story etc giving only the main points. A summary of his speech was printed in the newspaper.
ˈsummarize, ˈsummarise verb
to make a summary of. He summarized the arguments.
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References in classic literature ?
It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us.
As someone pointed out - it's a bit like getting one of your pals to summarise your report card for your parents.
One aspect is that, if effective easing beyond a zero policy rate is desired, the policy rate constrained at zero will no longer conveniently summarise the stance of monetary policy and its typical transmission into the yield curve (longer-maturity interest rates) and the economy.