precis
Brief written abstract
A precis is a concise summary of a text or speech, capturing the essential points in condensed form.
Unlike a paraphrase, which may be roughly equal in length to the original, a precis is deliberately shorter—typically a fraction of the source material.
She wrote a precis of the committee's findings.
The word is French and sometimes appears with the accent: précis.
Condensed version of text
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- synopsisCondensed version of content
- overviewBroad general summary
- compendiumCondensed reference collection
epitome · condensation · abridgment · recapitulation · brief · rundown · wrap-up · summation
Expressed with minimal words
- pithyConcise and forceful
- laconicBrief in expression
- terseBrief to bluntness
- compactTightly packed together
economical · crisp · tight · clipped · snappy · brief · short · neat
Activity for fitness
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- paraphraseRestatement in new words
- restatementRewording of something said
schoolwork · summarization · writing · analysis · comprehension · distillation · interpretation · exegesis
abstract
Condensed version of text
compendium · epitome · condensation · abridgment · recapitulation · brief · rundown · wrap-up · summation · outline
succinct
Expressed with minimal words
compact · economical · crisp · tight · clipped · snappy · brief · short · neat · compressed
exercise
Activity for fitness
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- paraphraseRestatement in new words
restatement · schoolwork · summarization · writing · analysis · comprehension · distillation · interpretation · exegesis · annotation
- French Loanwordsa la carte, ballet, a la mode, au revoir, bon appetit
- book summariessummary, plot summaries, novel summaries, synopses, chapter summaries
- brevitybrevity, concise, succinct, terse, pithy
- simplificationsimplification, simplifying, simplify, condensing, simplified
- study aidstutor, note cards, CliffsNotes, crib sheet, study guides
- summariessummary, synopsis, summaries, abstract, abstracts
precisexposition
Systematic explanatory presentation
elaboration · expansion · amplification · tome · dissertation
precisoriginal
First or inventive
whole · entirety · original text · source text · source document
- military precisionExacting standardized coordination
- surgical precisionExtreme exactness in execution
- clockwork precisionPerfect mechanical reliability
- more preciselyWith increased accuracy
- precision timingAccuracy to the millisecond
- precision strikeTargeted military attack
precise, precision, precisely, imprecise, preciseness, imprecision, precession, imprecisions, precisions