résumer — meaning in English

English meaning

• outline noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.
• summarize verb To reduce a longer piece of writing or speech down to its essential points.

Senses

résumer is used for these senses in English:

• boil down (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
• epitomize To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
• summarize (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).
• wrap up (transitive, and, intransitive, idiomatic) To summarize or recapitulate.

outline — full definition

1. noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.
2. noun A summary that lays out the main points of something, such as a plan or piece of writing.
3. verb To describe the main points of something, or to draw its boundary.

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