Summary vs Justify - What's the difference?
summary | justify |
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.
To provide an acceptable explanation for.
To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
* E. Everett
To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xiii. 39
To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
As an adjective summary
is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.As a noun summary
is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.As a verb justify is
to provide an acceptable explanation for.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 summaryjustify
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Alternative forms
* justifie (obsolete)Verb
- How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify' revolution, it would not ' justify the evil of breaking up a government.
- The text will look better justified .
- I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
- By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
- (Shakespeare)
