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Summary vs Cossack - What's the difference?

summary | cossack |

As nouns the difference between summary and cossack

is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while cossack is (cossack).

As an adjective summary

is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

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

    cossack

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cossack

    Noun

    (wikipedia Cossack) (en noun)
  • A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
  • A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
  • Derived terms

    * cossack green * cossack hat