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Surmise vs Summarise - What's the difference?

surmise | summarise |

As verbs the difference between surmise and summarise

is that surmise is to conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises while summarise is to prepare a summary of something.

As a noun surmise

is thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.

surmise

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
    • surmises of jealousy or of envy
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
  • * 1919 ,
    • The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
  • Reflection; thought; posit.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (surmis)
  • To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

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    summarise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * summarize (US )

    Verb

    (summaris)
  • To prepare a summary of something
    • Jim was asked to summarise the document by Wednesday.
  • To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review
    • After the meeting, Jim summarised the major decisions made.

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