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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
John Barton

Meaning of "summarize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUMMARIZE

summarize  [ˈsʌməˌraɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUMMARIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Summarize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb summarize in English.

WHAT DOES SUMMARIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Summarize

"Summarize" is the first single released from Australian indie rock band Little Birdy's third studio album, Confetti. It was released on 10 April 2009 and the single made it to number 54 on the ARIA charts. Two versions were released: a CD single featuring the track "One in a Million", and an iTunes version which featured the track "Sorrow" instead. Additionally, the song "Brother" was moved from Track 5 to Track 4.

Definition of summarize in the English dictionary

The definition of summarize in the dictionary is to make or be a summary of; express concisely.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUMMARIZE

PRESENT

Present
I summarize
you summarize
he/she/it summarizes
we summarize
you summarize
they summarize
Present continuous
I am summarizing
you are summarizing
he/she/it is summarizing
we are summarizing
you are summarizing
they are summarizing
Present perfect
I have summarized
you have summarized
he/she/it has summarized
we have summarized
you have summarized
they have summarized
Present perfect continuous
I have been summarizing
you have been summarizing
he/she/it has been summarizing
we have been summarizing
you have been summarizing
they have been summarizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I summarized
you summarized
he/she/it summarized
we summarized
you summarized
they summarized
Past continuous
I was summarizing
you were summarizing
he/she/it was summarizing
we were summarizing
you were summarizing
they were summarizing
Past perfect
I had summarized
you had summarized
he/she/it had summarized
we had summarized
you had summarized
they had summarized
Past perfect continuous
I had been summarizing
you had been summarizing
he/she/it had been summarizing
we had been summarizing
you had been summarizing
they had been summarizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will summarize
you will summarize
he/she/it will summarize
we will summarize
you will summarize
they will summarize
Future continuous
I will be summarizing
you will be summarizing
he/she/it will be summarizing
we will be summarizing
you will be summarizing
they will be summarizing
Future perfect
I will have summarized
you will have summarized
he/she/it will have summarized
we will have summarized
you will have summarized
they will have summarized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been summarizing
you will have been summarizing
he/she/it will have been summarizing
we will have been summarizing
you will have been summarizing
they will have been summarizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would summarize
you would summarize
he/she/it would summarize
we would summarize
you would summarize
they would summarize
Conditional continuous
I would be summarizing
you would be summarizing
he/she/it would be summarizing
we would be summarizing
you would be summarizing
they would be summarizing
Conditional perfect
I would have summarize
you would have summarize
he/she/it would have summarize
we would have summarize
you would have summarize
they would have summarize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been summarizing
you would have been summarizing
he/she/it would have been summarizing
we would have been summarizing
you would have been summarizing
they would have been summarizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you summarize
we let´s summarize
you summarize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to summarize
Past participle
summarized
Present Participle
summarizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUMMARIZE


copolymerise
kəʊˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz
copolymerize
kəʊˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz
depolymerise
diːˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz
depolymerize
diːˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz
dimerise
ˈdaɪməˌraɪz
dimerize
ˈdaɪməˌraɪz
euhemerise
juːˈhiːməˌraɪz
euhemerize
juːˈhiːməˌraɪz
glamorize
ˈɡlæməˌraɪz
glamourise
ˈɡlæməˌraɪz
glamourize
ˈɡlæməˌraɪz
isomerise
aɪˈsɒməˌraɪz
isomerize
aɪˈsɒməˌraɪz
marmarize
ˈmɑːməˌraɪz
memorise
ˈmeməˌraɪz
memorize
ˈmɛməˌraɪz
mesmerise
ˈmezməˌraɪz
mesmerize
ˈmɛzməˌraɪz
polymerise
ˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz
polymerize
ˈpɒlɪməˌraɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUMMARIZE

summand
summaries
summarily
summariness
summarisable
summarisation
summariser
summarist
summarizable
summarization
summarizer
summary
summary jurisdiction
summary offence
summat
summate
summation
summational
summational tone
summative

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUMMARIZE

burglarize
circularize
demilitarize
denuclearize
depolarize
familiarize
linearize
militarize
notarize
particularize
peculiarize
plagiarize
polarize
popularize
prize
regularize
saccharize
secularize
solarize
tartarize
vulgarize

Synonyms and antonyms of summarize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUMMARIZE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «summarize» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of summarize

Translation of «summarize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUMMARIZE

Find out the translation of summarize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of summarize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «summarize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

总结
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

resumir
570 millions of speakers

English

summarize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संक्षेप में प्रस्तुत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُلَخِّصُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

суммировать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fazer um resumo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংক্ষিপ্ত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

résumer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meringkaskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zusammenfassen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

要約する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

요약하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngringkes
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tóm tắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுருக்கமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सारांश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

özetlemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riepilogare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zreasumować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підбивати підсумки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a rezuma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνοψίζω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

som
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

summera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sammenfatte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of summarize

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUMMARIZE»

The term «summarize» is very widely used and occupies the 19.885 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUMMARIZE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about summarize

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUMMARIZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word summarize.
1
John Barton
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
2
Gary Bettman
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
3
Aaron Copland
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
4
Emma Donoghue
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
5
Ian Frazier
A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
6
Peter R. Grant
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
7
Michio Kaku
We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.
8
Claire Messud
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
9
Rick Perlstein
I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
10
Sufjan Stevens
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUMMARIZE»

Discover the use of summarize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to summarize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Drug Safety Data: How to Analyze, Summarize and Interpret to ...
The only guide of its kind, Drug Safety Data: How to Analyze, Summarize and Interpret to Determine Risk is an invaluable reference for premarketing risk assessment.
Michael Klepper, Barton Cobert, 2010
2
The Influence of Graphic Organizers on Students' Ability to ...
The three processes used to collect data for this research were concept maps, focus groups and the pre- and post-test results.
Patricia A. Goss, 2009
3
People Will Summarize Your Life in One Sentence-Pick It Now: ...
After nearly forty years of leading, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don’t have to. Each chapter contains detailed application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” for leaders who desire to mentor others using the book.
John Maxwell, 2012
4
A Gentle Introduction to Stata
A simple program might open a dataset, summarize the variables, create a codebook, and then do a frequency tabulation of the categorical variables. A program can include all the commands you use to label variables and values, define how ...
Alan C. Acock, 2006
5
Master VISUALLY Microsoft Office 2007
ou can summarize the information in a database to help you analyze the information. You can divide records into groups and summarize the information for each group. For example, you can summarize information grouped by date to  ...
Tom Bunzel, 2007
6
Discovery Series: Human Sexuality
Ectoparasitic Infections 456 L02 Identify the two most common ectoparasitic infections and summarize their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. GonorrheaI Syphilis, Chlamydia, and Chancroids 458 L03 Identify the cause of gonorrhea, and ...
Janell Carroll, 2012
7
Excel 2007 for Social Science Statistics: A Guide to Solving ...
Summarize. the. Result. of. a. Hypothesis. Test. It is important for you to understand that in this book we are summarizing an hypothesis test in one of two ways: (1) we accept the null hypothesis, or (2) we reject the null hypothesis and accept ...
Thomas J Quirk, 2012
8
The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management
Summarize. Benefits. and. Close. Learn to recognize the words and body language that indicate that the prospective supporter is moving toward acceptance of the case statement. One clear sign is when fundraisers have asked an open- ...
Stanley Weinstein, 2009
9
Using Writing to Learn Across the Content Areas: An ASCD ...
X 223 Planning a Cause-and-Effect Paper X 227 Prepare to Compare X X 231 Preparing for Debate X X X Debate 235 The Problem's Solved X X X 383 Put It Together X X X X X X X Summarize 239 Putting It All Together X X X X X X X 243  ...
Sue Beers, Lou Howell, 2005
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Write a Business Plan in No Time
Summarize. the. Opportunity. and. Business. Concept. 1. What is the name of your company? 2. What opportunity for making money does your business offer? 3. What is your business concept? What is your company mission statement? 4.
Frank Fiore, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUMMARIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term summarize is used in the context of the following news items.
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Four plays that summarize the US soccer team's disheartening loss …
The U.S. had a cakewalk to the Gold Cup semi-finals. They fell at the first real hurdle. Wednesday night, the U.S. men's national team fell to Jamaica in the ... «Boston.com, Jul 15»
2
An Excerpt From Rob Gronkowski's New Book Perfectly Summarizes
It's ironic that Gronkowski, who is consistently charged with an inability to be well-spoken, perfectly summarized his status. He might not be a voracious reader, ... «BostInno, Jun 15»
3
Feds summarize thoughts on grizzlies in North Cascades
Grizzly bears travel in Glacier National Park in Montana. The National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collected more than 3,400 comments on ... «Capital press, Jun 15»
4
Make summarizing and reporting easy with Excel PivotTables
Excel's PivotTable feature lets you organize and summarize data into a meaningful report format without changing the data set. Beyond reporting, PivotTables ... «TechRepublic, Jun 15»
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Help! I need an e-mail newsletter to summarize all the e-mail …
At this point, I'm getting so many briefings and reports and tip sheets and morning mixes and playbooks and digests that I need a newsletter that summarizes all ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
6
Crystal, an app that attempts to summarize your personality
The theory behind Crystal is that it'll help improve communication online. Before you contact someone for the first time, you can generate a Crystal profile to ... «Boing Boing, May 15»
7
Pictograph Posters Summarize Movies in Two Frames
“Think of it as an extremely short film, summarizing the story and visualizing the changes the characters go through,” Hertz says in the project's Kickstarter ... «Paste Magazine, May 15»
8
Twitter Launches Highlights For Android To Summarize The Day's …
If keeping up with all those tweets is starting to feel a little overwhelming, Twitter just announced a new feature that could help — at least if you own an Android ... «TechCrunch, Apr 15»
9
Game of Thrones cast try to summarize the entire series in 30 seconds
Members of the Game of Thrones cast valiantly tried to summarize all four seasons of the HBO hit series in just 30 seconds resulting in a hilarious video that is ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
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The 'Game Of Thrones' Cast Struggles To Summarize The Show In …
When you try to summarize "Game of Thrones" in 30 seconds, you win or you prove the struggle is real. In addition to rolling out some new "Game of Thrones" ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»

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