compendium

Roget-categorie 596

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#596. Compendium

zelfstandig naamwoord

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.

werkwoord

abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize — make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract etc. n.. recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
abbreviate etc. (shorten) 201 — condense etc. (compress) 195 — compile etc. (collect) 72.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

compendious, synoptic, analectic^† — abrege [Fr.], abridged etc. v. — variorum^†.

bijwoord

in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.

uitdrukking

it lies in a nutshell.

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