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Difference Between Summarize and Sum
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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.
Sum
An amount obtained as a result of adding numbers.
Summarize
Give a brief statement of the main points of (something)
These results can be summarized in the following table
To summarize, there are three main categories
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An arithmetic problem
A child good at sums.
Summarize
To make a summary or make a summary of.
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The whole amount, quantity, or number; an aggregate
The sum of the team's combined experience.
Summarize
(ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.
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An amount of money
Paid an enormous sum.
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(ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.
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A summary
My view of the world, in sum.
Summarize
To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.
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The central idea or point; the gist.
Summarize
Give a summary (of);
He summed up his results
I will now summarize
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(Mathematics) To add.
Summarize
Be a summary of;
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
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To give a summary of; summarize.
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A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
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(often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
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A quantity of money.
A tidy sum
The sum of forty pounds
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A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.
This is the sum and substance of his objections.
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A central idea or point; gist.
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The utmost degree.
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(obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
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The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
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The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
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A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
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(transitive) To add together.
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(transitive) To give a summary of.
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Eye dialect of some
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Eye dialect of some
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The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation.
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A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
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The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
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Height; completion; utmost degree.
Thus have I told thee all my state, and broughtMy story to the sum of earthly bliss.
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A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole.
A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums.
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To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; - usually with up.
The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.
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To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; - usually with up.
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable.
He sums their virtues in himself alone.
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To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
But feathered soon and fledgeThey summed their pens [wings].
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A quantity of money;
He borrowed a large sum
The amount he had in cash was insufficient
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A quantity obtained by addition
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The final aggregate;
The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered
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The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
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The whole amount
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The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
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A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
Let C be the union of the sets A and B
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Be a summary of;
The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
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Determine the sum of;
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
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