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📝 To give main points 📊 To show key numbers
to summarize

to summarize

3 3.7
Give simple numbers that describe a set of data, like average or count
  • verb
  • /ˈsʌməˌraɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : resumir
  • Vessel diameters, capillary numbers, and leukocyte numbers were summarized using means and standard deviations or standard errors.
  • summarized results
  • summarized data
  • statistics to summarize

So I'm going to give you a few graphs that basically summarize world history in in a in a few line graphs.

Examples

  • In "Tales of Teacher Absence," Miller (2008) summarized the causes and consequences of teacher absence.

    Academic text (2012)

  • For descriptive purposes, we summarized the imputed data with the median value for each parameter.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In the following section, we summarize and discuss the implications of this inquiry.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The second page of the CIAC provides a way to summarize the data recorded on the first page.

    Academic text (2008)

  • For the other studies, the results were summarized in a narrative.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Descriptive statistics were used to summarize responses to the questionnaire used for this study.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Statistically significant correlations are summarized below, with the data year in parentheses.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Descriptive statistics were utilized to summarize, organize, and simplify the data (Gravetter & Wallnau, 1996).

    Academic text (2011)

  • Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the results of the experiment to understand the overall trends.

  • The report aims to summarize the key findings from the research study in an easy-to-read format.

How Concise

to summarize
  • Specialized
3 3.7
aggregate
21 5.8
to record
350 2.6

Surface Forms

summarize infinitive
summarized past
summarized past participle
summarizing present participle
summarizes third person singular

Morphology

summarize = summary (transparent) = summary + ize

The statistical sense is an application of 'to make a summary' (i.e., produce concise descriptions), so the derivation from 'summary' is straightforward.

Etymology

Summarize comes from the Latin summa meaning 'sum' or 'total', the same root as the English word sum, which you know from adding numbers. So, in statistics to summarize data is to give the short totals and key numbers that show the whole at a glance.