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summary: a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"

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ellipsis collapse: omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

elision collapse: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

rundown collapse

short shrift collapse: brief and unsympathetic treatment; a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"

synoptic collapse: presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament; "synoptic sayings"; presenting a summary or general view of a whole; "a synoptic presentation of a physical theory"

iteration collapse: doing or saying again; a repeated performance; (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"; (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"

body count collapse: a count of troops killed in an operation or time period; "the daily body count increased as the war went on"

instantaneous collapse: occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"

programme collapse

gnomic collapse: relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"

aphoristic collapse: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

legality collapse: lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

summing up collapse

Johnny on the spot collapse

poetic justice collapse: an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

precis collapse: make a summary (of)

conspectus collapse: an overall summary

recounting collapse

succinct collapse

rehash collapse: old material that is slightly reworked and used again; "merely a dull rehash of his first novel"; present or use over, with no or few changes

synopsis collapse

critique collapse

capitulation collapse: the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"; a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic

compendious collapse: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

pruned collapse

abbreviated collapse: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"; cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

shortened collapse

abridged collapse: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

clipped collapse: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"; cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"

lawfulness collapse: the quality of conforming to law

head count collapse: number of people in a particular group

nose count collapse

laconic collapse

slap in the face collapse

docked collapse: that in a dock; "a docked ship"

taciturn collapse: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

punctual collapse: acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed; "she expected guests to be punctual at meals"; "he is not a particularly punctual person"; "punctual payment"

recapitulation collapse: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion; (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

concise collapse: expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

expeditious collapse: characterized by speed and efficiency

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