Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A broad, comprehensive view; a survey.
- noun A summary or review.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An overlooking; inspection.
- To overlook.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An inspection or overlooking.
- noun A brief summary of a topic, situation, or plan; an outline or survey{2}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A brief
summary , as of a book or a presentation. - verb To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a general summary of a subject
Etymologies
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Examples
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And this is after an early in the term overview and several exercises in the reading of fiction.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010
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Big moment: The MT6 release of The Sounds of Megaphone Unlimited, as close to a label overview as one could ever hope.
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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Big moment: The MT6 release of The Sounds of Megaphone Unlimited, as close to a label overview as one could ever hope.
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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A 10 minute overview is too long for the source material of Breaking Dawn.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will be Two Films – Collider.com 2010
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(The Jon L. Breen overview is nice, but not enough.)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Recommended Reading List: January, 2010 2010
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Now I have to go with "But your overview is much more in depth than anything I could contribute."
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(The Jon L. Breen overview is nice, but not enough.)
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As I listened to the morning discussion group as well as the overview from the camp and school directors, I struggled to place these dedicated individuals in a social context I could understand because they seem like such an anomaly.
Liz Neumark: Roots Liz Neumark 2010
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(The Jon L. Breen overview is nice, but not enough.)
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(The Jon L. Breen overview is nice, but not enough.)
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The emotional impact of seeing Earth from a distance is called the “overview effect,” and while everyone experiences it differently, it often manifests as a kind of sorrow and loneliness mitigated by a feeling of community and solidarity with all that remains on Earth.
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