summarize

Word family (noun) summary (verb) summarize

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsummarizesum‧mar‧ize (also summarise British English) /ˈsʌməraɪz/ AWL verb [intransitive, transitive] SUMMARIZEto make a short statement giving only the main information and not the details of a plan, event, report etc SYN sum up The authors summarize their views in the introduction.to summarize To summarize, in most cases the schools were achieving the standards set.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpussummarize• The report was detailed and thorough; it didn't just summarize.• Every Friday take ten or fifteen minutes to summarize all of your achievements for the week.• The important properties of these three principal volcanic rock groups can be summarized in simple tables.• The interview was summarized on the front page of the newspaper.• It also summarizes reports of mysterious aerial explosions over metropolitan areas drawn from newspapers and magazines.• Let us summarize some of the business issues concerned with network infrastructure investments.• Table 3. 4 summarizes the connection capabilities and technology.• Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution.• Your final paragraph should summarize the main points of your essay.• I wrote a letter summarizing the main points we had discussed.• Complex information is summarized through diagrams.

Exercises

Vocabulary exercises help you to learn synonyms, collocations and idioms.
Intermediate and Advanced level grammar practice with progress tests.
Listening and pronunciation, exam preparation and more!

Pictures of the day

What are these?

Click on the pictures to check.

Explore topics

See all topics

Word of the day postpone to change the date or time of a planned event or action to a later one

Verb table

summarize

Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they	summarize
he, she, it	summarizes
> View More
Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	summarized
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have summarized
he, she, it	has summarized
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had summarized
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will summarize
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have summarized
> View Less

Continuous Form
Present
I	am summarizing
he, she, it	is summarizing
> View More
you, we, they	are summarizing
Past
I, he, she, it	was summarizing
you, we, they	were summarizing
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have been summarizing
he, she, it	has been summarizing
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been summarizing
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be summarizing
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been summarizing
> View Less