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Summary vs Recapitulate - What's the difference?

summary | recapitulate |

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 recapitulate is

to summarize or repeat in concise 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

    recapitulate

    English

    Verb

    (recapitulat)
  • to summarize or repeat in concise form
    • The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
  • to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development
    • ''Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

    Synonyms

    * (to summarize or repeat in concise form) recap, sum up

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