Summary vs. Introduction

Summaryadjective

Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

‘A summary review is in the appendix.’;

Introductionnoun

The act or process of introducing.

Summaryadjective

Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

‘They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.’;

Introductionnoun

A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.

Summaryadjective

(legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

‘Summary justice is bad justice.’;

Introductionnoun

An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.

Summarynoun

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

Introductionnoun

A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.

Summaryadjective

Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

Introductionnoun

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

Summaryadjective

Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

Introductionnoun

The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

Summarynoun

A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

Introductionnoun

That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.

Summarynoun

a briefstatement that presents the main points in a concise form;

‘he gave a summary of the conclusions’;

Introductionnoun

A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.

Summaryadjective

performed speedily and without formality;

‘a summary execution’; ‘summary justice’;

Introductionnoun

the first section of a communication

Summaryadjective

briefly giving the gist of something;

‘a short and compendious book’; ‘a compact style is brief and pithy’; ‘succinct comparisons’; ‘a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject’;

Introductionnoun

the act of beginning something new;

‘they looked forward to the debut of their new product line’;

Introductionnoun

formally making a person known to another or to the public

Introductionnoun

a basic or elementary instructional text

Introductionnoun

a new proposal;

‘they resisted the introduction of impractical alternatives’;

Introductionnoun

the act of putting one thing into another

Introductionnoun

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

‘she looked forward to her initiation as an adult’; ‘the foundation of a new scientific society’; ‘he regards the fork as a modern introduction’;

Introductionnoun

the action of introducing something

‘the introduction of muskrats into central Europe’; ‘issues arising from the introduction of new technology’;

Introductionnoun

a thing newly brought into use or introduced to a place for the first time

‘despite the new introductions, many of the older species remain firm favourites’;

Introductionnoun

a formal presentation of one person to another, in which each is told the other's name

‘he returned to his desk, leaving Michael to make the introductions’; ‘a letter of introduction’;

Introductionnoun

a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech

‘your talk will need an introduction which states clearly what you are talking about and why’;

Introductionnoun

a preliminary section in a piece of music, often thematically different from the main section

‘his Fifth Symphony opens with an introduction featuring a solo tuba’;

Introductionnoun

a book or course of study intended to introduce a subject to a person

‘a good general introduction to the subject is A Social History of England’;

Introductionnoun

a person's first experience of a subject or thing

‘my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society’;