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zusammenfassen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • outline noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.
  • recapitulate verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  • resume verb To start something again after it was paused or interrupted.
  • subsume verb To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
  • summarize verb To reduce a longer piece of writing or speech down to its essential points.

Senses

zusammenfassen is used for these senses in English:

  • encapsulate (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
  • recapitulate (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  • resume (transitive, now, _, rare) To summarise. [from 15th c.]
  • subsume (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
  • 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.

recapitulate — full definition

  1. verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
  2. verb To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
  3. verb To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.

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