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
- noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.
- noun A summary that lays out the main points of something, such as a plan or piece of writing.
- verb To describe the main points of something, or to draw its boundary.
recapitulate — full definition
- verb To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- verb To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- 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.