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Roget 596:
compend,
compendium;
abstract,
precis,
epitome,
multum in parvo [Lat.],
analysis,
pandect†,
digest,
sum and substance,
brief,
abridgment,
summary,
apercu,
draft,
minute,
note;
excerpt;
synopsis,
textbook,
conspectus,
outlines,
syllabus,
contents,
heads,
prospectus.
album;
scrap book,
note book,
memorandum book,
commonplace book;
extracts,
excerpta†,
cuttings;
fugitive pieces,
fugitive writing;
spicilegium†,
flowers,
anthology,
collectanea†,
analecta†;
compilation.
recapitulation,
resume,
review.
abbreviation,
abbreviature†;
contraction;
shortening
etc.
201;
compression
etc.
195.
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Roget 642:
importance,
consequence,
moment,
prominence,
consideration,
mark,
materialness.
import,
significance,
concern;
emphasis,
interest.
greatness
etc.
31;
superiority
etc.
33;
notability
etc.
(repute)
873;
weight
etc.
(influence)
175;
value
etc.
(goodness)
648;
usefulness
etc.
644.
gravity,
seriousness,
solemnity;
no joke,
no laughing matter;
pressure,
urgency,
stress;
matter of life and death.
memorabilia,
notabilia†,
great doings;
red-letter day.
great thing,
great point;
main chance,
the be all and the end all"
[Macbeth];
cardinal point;
substance,
gist
etc.
(essence)
5;
sum and substance,
gravamen,
head and front;
important part,
principal part,
prominent part,
essential part;
half the battle;
sine qua non;
breath of one's nostrils
etc.
(life)
359;
cream,
salt,
core,
kernel,
heart,
nucleus;
keynote,
keystone;
corner stone;
trump card
etc.
(device)
626;
salient points.
top sawyer,
first fiddle,
prima donna [Sp.],
chief;
triton among the minnows;
'it' [U.S.]. "
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Roget 516:
meaning;
signification,
significance;
sense,
expression;
import,
purport;
force;
drift,
tenor,
spirit,
bearing,
coloring;
scope.
[important part of the meaning]
substance;
gist,
essence,
marrow,
spirit
etc.
5.
matter;
subject,
subject matter;
argument,
text,
sum and substance.
general meaning,
broad meaning,
substantial meaning,
colloquial meaning,
literal meaning,
plain meaning,
simple meaning,
natural meaning,
unstrained meaning,
true meaning,
etc.
(exact)
494
honest meaning,
etc.
543
prima facie meaning [Lat.];
etc.
(manifest)
525.
letter of the law.
literally;
after acceptation.
synonym;
implication,
allusion
etc.
(latency)
526;
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527;
figure of speech
etc.
521;
acceptation
etc.
(interpretation)
522.
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