Curtailed vs Summarised - What's the difference?

Curtailed is a related term of summarised.

is that curtailed is (curtail) while summarised is (summarise).

(head)

(curtail)

(en verb)

(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal

''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.

To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.

When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.

(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.

Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.

* Macaulay

Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.

* (animal's tail) crop, dock * shorten * behedge, control, limit, restrain

* curtailer * curtailment

(en noun)

(architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

(head)

(summarise)

* summarize (US )

(summaris)

To prepare a summary of something

Jim was asked to summarise the document by Wednesday.

To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review

After the meeting, Jim summarised the major decisions made.