overview

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ view.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/

Noun

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?

Derived terms

• overview effect

Translations

brief summary, as of a book or a presentation

• Bulgarian: резюме (bg) n (rezjume)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概觀／概观 (zh) (gàiguān)

• Czech: přehled (cs) 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), survol (fr) m, aperçu (fr) m
• Georgian: მიმოხილვა (mimoxilva)
• German: Übersicht (de) f, Überblick (de) m
• Greek: επισκόπηση (el) f (episkópisi)
• Hebrew: סקירה f (skirá)
• Hungarian: áttekintés (hu)
• Irish: forbhreathnú m, léargas ginearálta m, foramharc m, osamharc m
• Italian: visione d'insieme m, resoconto (it), panoramica (it) f
• Japanese: 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō)
• Korean: 개요 (gaeyo)
• Latin: breviārium n
• Latvian: pārskats m
• Maori: kōrero whānui, tirowhānui, tirohanga whānui
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Pennsylvania German: Iwwerguck
• Persian: نمای کلی
• Polish: przegląd (pl) m
• Portuguese: visão geral f, breve resumo m, apanhado (pt) m
• Romanian: vedere de ansamblu f, rezumat (ro) n
• Russian: обозре́ние (ru) n (obozrénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: pregled (sh) m, prikaz (sh) m (literary)

• Spanish: resumen (es) m, visión de conjunto f
• Swedish: översikt (sv) c, överblick (sv) c, resumé (sv) c
• Turkish: genel bakış, kısaca gözden geçirme
• Ukrainian: огляд (uk) m (ohljad)

Verb

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.