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Webster 1913 Edition


Overview

O′ver-viewˊ

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Survey
.]
1.
An inspection or overlooking.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Definition 2024


overview

overview

English

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

  1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

Translations

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

  1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
    • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice , ISBN 0870730150, page 313:
      Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.