summarizesum‧mar‧ize (also summarise British English) /ˈsʌməraɪz/ ●○○ AWL verb [intransitive, transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
The authors summarize their views in the introduction.to summarize To summarize, in most cases the schools were achieving the standards set.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
summarize
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | summarize |
| he, she, it | summarizes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | summarized |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have summarized |
| he, she, it | has summarized | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had summarized |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will summarize |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have summarized |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am summarizing |
| he, she, it | is summarizing | |
| you, we, they | are summarizing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was summarizing |
| you, we, they | were summarizing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been summarizing |
| he, she, it | has been summarizing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been summarizing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be summarizing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been summarizing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- I wrote a letter summarizing the main points we had discussed.
- The interview was summarized on the front page of the newspaper.
- The report was detailed and thorough; it didn't just summarize.
- Your final paragraph should summarize the main points of your essay.
- Complex information is summarized through diagrams.
- Every Friday take ten or fifteen minutes to summarize all of your achievements for the week.
- It also summarizes reports of mysterious aerial explosions over metropolitan areas drawn from newspapers and magazines.
- Let us summarize some of the business issues concerned with network infrastructure investments.
- Table 3. 4 summarizes the connection capabilities and technology.
- Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution.
- The important properties of these three principal volcanic rock groups can be summarized in simple tables.
Longman Language Activatorto summarize something► summarize
Collocations also summarise British to make a short statement giving only the main information, but not the details, of a report, plan, event etc: · Your final paragraph should summarize the main points of your essay.· The interview was summarized on the front page of the newspaper.· The report was detailed and thorough; it didn't just summarize.
► sum up to summarize something clearly and in very few words, especially at the end of a speech, report, or meeting: · The Chairman's job was to introduce the speakers and to sum up at the end of the debate.sum up something: · The last section of the report sums up the arguments on both sides.· In these few words the president summed up the feelings of the whole nation.sum something up: · I couldn't have summed it up better.
► recap/give (somebody) a recap to make a short spoken statement summarizing what has already been said in order to remind someone of it: · If you missed the previous episode, Alistair Cooke starts off each week by recapping the story so far.· To recap the legend: William Tell shot an apple off his son's head.recap/give (sb) a recap of: · At the end of the article, Kohn gives a recap of the proposals.
► give (somebody) a rundown to give someone a short, usually spoken report, especially about a series of events, including all the important facts: · Before we go to work on this, you'd better give us a complete rundown.give (sb) a rundown on: · Baseball cards give a rundown on each player's statistics.give (sb) a rundown of: · Can you give me a rundown of what was said at yesterday's meeting?
a statement in which facts or ideas are summarized► summary a short statement that gives only the main ideas and facts of something that has been written or said: · "The progress we hoped for has clearly not developed," the council said in the summary to its final report.· In its report on the speech, the radio carried a brief summary, but did not broadcast the whole thing.summary of: · Write a two-page summary of the results of your research.· I've made a summary of the main points in the Secretary General's speech.news summary British (=a short programme reporting the main events in the news): · There will be a news summary at 9.05.
► outline a short statement, especially a written one, that summarizes a statement or piece of writing and contains only the most important points: · Write a short outline covering the main points before you start on your essay.outline of: · The book begins with an outline of the events that led to the First World War.broad outline (=a very general outline): · In this paper I will give a broad outline of the research we have been doing.in outline (=giving an outline): · This chapter shows, in outline, the way money circulates through the economy.
► overview a short statement that summarizes a whole subject, situation, or problem in a general way: · Before we can consider the details we need to have an overview of the whole situation.overview of: · The aim of the first chapter is to provide a general overview of the subjects that will be covered.
► rundown a report, especially a spoken one, that summarizes a set of events or a situation quickly and simply: rundown of: · I want a complete rundown of what's been happening while I've been away.· What follows is a rundown of all the ways one company tries to market its products.rundown on: · Here is a rundown on the outdoor activities available in the resort.
► precis a short piece of writing, especially one written by a student as a formal language exercise, intended to summarize the main points of a longer piece of writing: precis of: · I want you to write a precis of the whole passage in not more than 80 words.
► synopsis a short piece of writing that summarizes the story of a film, play, or book: · I read the synopsis and decided that it would make an interesting film.synopsis of: · Please write a synopsis of the story, not more than 100 words long.
what you say when you are going to summarize something► to sum up/to summarize/in summary use this at the beginning of a sentence when you are going to summarize what has been said, especially at the end of a speech: · To sum up, the jury found the wrong person guilty.· To summarize, Bremer is saying "you just have to trust me."· In summary, don't waste your money on this book.
► in a nutshell use this when you are summarizing a situation or idea in a few words: · In a nutshell, the state government is expected to be $2 million in debt by the end of the year.· A study of women at work says, in a nutshell, that opportunities have opened up dramatically.put it in a nutshell: · Bob put it in a nutshell when he said the problems was essentially a lack of communication.
► in short use this to say the most important point about a situation in a few words: · In short, the report says that more money should be spent on education.· In short, the better a parent you are during the first 18 years, the better friends you'll be later.
► to cut a long story short especially British /to make a long story short American say this when you want to finish a story quickly and only tell people the most important parts: · To make a long story short, Stephen had a fight with Paul and ended up in the hospital.· I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to describe something in a general way, giving only the main points► outline to describe something such as an idea, plan, or report by giving the main points of it, especially in writing: · Each member of staff received a letter outlining their responsibilities and duties.· He declined to provide a copy of the report but agreed to outline its contents.
► sketch out to describe something such as a plan or an idea in a general way without giving any details or being very exact: · In his letter, Marx sketched out his ideas for a new work on the history of capitalism in Britain.· Could you sketch out for us exactly how you see this plan developing?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► as
Word family· The key nursing responsibilities involved in immediate post-operative care can be summarized as follows: 1.· The litany of problems they revealed to me can best be summarized as follows: High costs-so high they were not competitive.· The authors define five recruitment strategies which can be summarized as follows: 1 educational qualifications perform a determinative function.· However, its operation can be summarized as follows.
NOUN► chapter· The final chapter summarizes the key themes in the book.· The contents of this chapter are summarized in Table 12.2.· This chapter summarizes the basic insights that have emerged regarding political gladiators.· Those chapters summarize his main concerns, which are then illustrated in the narrative of the text with descriptions of individual institutions.
► figure· Finally, at departmental or agency level, the funds are allocated. Figure 4.4 summarizes this process.· The process of overaccumulation described in this chapter is complex. Figure 11.8 summarizes the various forces at work.
► finding· The report itself has been so exhaustively examined that there is no need here to summarize all of its findings.
► position· Pilger was called in, and he summarized his position.· Leibniz summarized his position of physical theory in regard to Cartesianism in a letter to Bouvet of 2 December 1697.· Here we will summarize the position briefly.
► process· Figure 21.6 illustrates and summarizes the entrainment process described in this section.
► result· Table 3 summarizes their overall results.· Table 111. 1 summarizes the results.
► table· Summary Table 4.5 summarizes the ` comparison of comparisons' on the relationship between economic development and democracy presented in this chapter.· Some of the main conclusions from Table 3.3 are summarized in Fig. 3.8 and 3.9.
WORD FAMILYnounsummaryverbsummarize
to make a short statement giving only the main information and not the details of a plan, event, report etc SYN sum up: The authors summarize their views in the introduction.to summarize To summarize, in most cases the schools were achieving the standards set.