overview

From over- + view.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
   • 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:

     With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.

2. (rare) A view from above.
3. (obsolete) An inspection.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

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

1. (transitive) To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice‎^[1], →ISBN, 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.