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Summary vs Pruning - What's the difference?

summary | pruning |

As nouns the difference between summary and pruning

is that summary is an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material while pruning is a removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.

As an adjective summary

is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

As a verb pruning is

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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

    pruning

    English

    Noun

  • A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
  • (countable) Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
  • (computer science) A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.

    • Derived terms

    * alpha-beta pruning

    Verb

    (head)