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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | survey |
| Synonyms: | analysis, aperçu, audit, capsulization, critique, examination, inquiry, inspection, outline, pandect, précis, review, scrutiny, sketch, study, syllabus, synopsis, thumbnail, view |
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| Main Entry: | conspectus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | summary |
| Synonyms: | abstract, digest, outline, overview, précis, resume, review, rundown, summation, synopsis |
| Main Entry: | panorama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scene, horizon |
| Synonyms: | bird's-eye view, compass, dimension, diorama, extent, orbit, overview, perspective, picture, prospect, purview, radius, range, reach, scenery, scenic view, scope, spectacle, survey, sweep, view, vista |
| Main Entry: | perspective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | view, outlook |
| Synonyms: | angle, aspect, attitude, broad view, context, frame of reference, headset, landscape, mindset, objectivity, overview, panorama, proportion, prospect, relation, relative importance, relativity, scene, size of it, viewpoint, vista, way of looking |
| Notes: | perspective is a way of regarding situations or topics or a mental view or the state of one's ideas; prospective means concerned with or related to the future |
| Main Entry: | survey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scrutiny, examination |
| Synonyms: | analysis, aperçu, audit, check, compendium, critique, digest, inquiry, inspection, outline, overview, pandect, perlustration, perusal, précis, review, sample, scan, sketch, study, syllabus, view |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | bird's-eye view |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comprehensive view |
| Synonyms: | aerial perspective, aerial view, bird's-eye survey, fly on the wall, great view, overview, pandect, panorama, worm's-eye view |
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| Concept: | Compendium. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu (aperçu), draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus., album; scrapbook, notebook, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation., recapitulation, resume, review., abbreviation, abbreviature; contraction; shortening; compression.
-verbs
abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract., recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up., abbreviate (shorten); condense (compress); compile (collect).
-adjectives
compendious, synoptic, analectic; abrege, abridged; variorum.
-adverbs
in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.
-phrases
it lies in a nutshell.
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