overview

English

Etymology

over- +‎ view

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌvjuː/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
An inspection.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,
  Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

brief summary, as of a book or a presentation

Chinese:
Mandarin: 概觀 (zh), 概观 (zh) (gàiguān)
Czech: přehled m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: overzicht (nl)
Esperanto: superrigardo (eo)
Finnish: yleiskatsaus, yleiskuva
French: vue d'ensemble, résumé (fr), synthèse (fr)
Georgian: მიმოხილვა (mimoxilva)
German: Übersicht (de) f, Überblick (de) m
Greek: επισκόπηση (el) f (episkópisi)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: áttekintés (hu)
Irish: forbhreathnú m, léargas ginearálta m, foramharc m, osamharc m

Italian: visione d'insieme m, resoconto (it)
Japanese: 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: breviarium n
Maori: kōrero whānui, tirowhānui, tirohanga whānui
Pennsylvania German: Iwwerguck
Persian: نمای کلی‎
Polish: przegląd (pl) m
Portuguese: visão geral f, breve resumo m, apanhado (pt) m
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: обозре́ние (ru) n (obozrénije)
Spanish: resumen (es) m
Swedish: översikt (sv) c, överblick (sv) c, resumé (sv) c
Turkish: genel bakış, kısaca gözden geçirme

Verb

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

To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
- 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice , →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.

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