Summary vs Index - What's the difference?
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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.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
As nouns the difference between summary and index
is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while index is an alphabetical listing of items and their location.As an adjective summary
is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.As a verb index is
to arrange an index for something, especially a long text.As a proper noun Index is
a town in Washington.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 summaryindex
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)