Summarize vs Generalize - What's the difference?
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To prepare a summary of something
To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
As verbs the difference between summarize and generalize
is that summarize is to prepare a summary of something while generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms.summarize
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* summarise (UK )Verb
(summariz)generalize
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* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.