overview

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.
   • circa 1594 William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

• French: vue d'ensemble, résumé, synthèse
• German: Übersicht, Überblick
• Italian: visione d'insieme, resoconto, panoramica
• Portuguese: visão geral, breve resumo, apanhado
• Russian: обозре́ние
• Spanish: resumen

Verb

overview (overviews, present participle overviewing; past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice , ISBN 0870730150, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.

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