Summary vs Commentary - What's the difference?
summary | commentary |
Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
(legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
As nouns the difference between summary and commentary
is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.As an adjective summary
is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.summary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A summary review is in the appendix.
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
- Summary justice is bad justice.
Noun
(wikipedia summary) (summaries)Synonyms
* upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)Derived terms
* executive summary * management summarycommentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).