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tittle | summary |

As a proper noun tittle

is .

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.

tittle

English

(wikipedia tittle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
  • Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (i) and (j).
  • * 1590 , Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
    • The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .
  • * 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :
    • The words "jot" and "tittle " in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
  • * 1987 , Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance , page xii:
  • *:: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of ") "tittles" )
  • * 2008 , Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters :
    • A tittle' is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two '''tittles'''. Maybe it's a jot and a ' tittle side by side.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Related terms

    * iota * titlo

    See also

    * tittle-tattle * title

    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