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Abridged vs Summary - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between abridged and summary

is that abridged is cut or shortened, especially of a literary work while summary is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

As a verb abridged

is past tense of abridge.

As a noun summary is

an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

abridged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
    • The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.

    Related terms

    * unabridged

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abridge)

    • Anagrams

    *

    summary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
    • A summary review is in the appendix.
  • Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  • (legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
    • Summary justice is bad justice.

    Noun

    (wikipedia summary) (summaries)
  • An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

    • Synonyms

    * upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

    Derived terms

    * executive summary * management summary