overview
A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
Noun
- A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
- With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months. - 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland,...
- A view from above.
- An inspection.
- Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view? - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English view English overview From over- + view.
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Verb
- To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
- 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. - 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim,...