Blurb vs Summary - What's the difference?
blurb | summary |
A short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes.
To write or quote something in a
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 4, author=David M. Halbfinger, title=Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review, work=New York Times
, passage=When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.” }}
English eponyms
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.
As nouns the difference between blurb and summary
is that blurb is a short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes while summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.As a verb blurb
is to write or quote something in a blurb.As an adjective summary is
concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.blurb
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(wikipedia blurb)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation
summary
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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.