Overview
noun
A short description explaining the main points or idea of something.
The teacher gave us an overview of what we will learn this semester.
Often appears as...
- provide an overview
- get an overview
noun
A short description explaining the main points or idea of something.
The teacher gave us an overview of what we will learn this semester.
Often appears as...
- provide an overview
- get an overview
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Pro Tip 1/3Not Detailed
An overview is not meant to cover every detail but to present the general idea.
Before diving into each chapter, the professor provided an overview of the book's themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Starting Point
Use 'overview' at the beginning to introduce a broad topic before specifics.
The document starts with an overview of the company's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Verbal Summary
'Overview' can be used when summarizing verbally, it signals a brief run-through of main points.
Let me give you an overview of the meeting's key outcomes.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Detailed
An overview is not meant to cover every detail but to present the general idea.
Before diving into each chapter, the professor provided an overview of the book's themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Starting Point
Use 'overview' at the beginning to introduce a broad topic before specifics.
The document starts with an overview of the company's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Verbal Summary
'Overview' can be used when summarizing verbally, it signals a brief run-through of main points.
Let me give you an overview of the meeting's key outcomes.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Detailed
An overview is not meant to cover every detail but to present the general idea.
Before diving into each chapter, the professor provided an overview of the book's themes.
Pro Tip 2/3Starting Point
Use 'overview' at the beginning to introduce a broad topic before specifics.
The document starts with an overview of the company's history.
Pro Tip 3/3Verbal Summary
'Overview' can be used when summarizing verbally, it signals a brief run-through of main points.
Let me give you an overview of the meeting's key outcomes.
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David S. Rose: 10 things...
even if the competition is the old way of doing something. I want to know exactly what your competition is, and that will help me judge how you fit into the whole operation. I want to know how you're special. I know what your competition does -- how are you going to prevent them from eating your lunch? All this ties into the financial overview.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
ask feel but it's a place that has a lot of life obviously and the wolves are there and other species and so just quick overview where we're at this is 80 degrees north it's right next to Greenland and the Wolves there as I said they don't have any fear of humans and so instead of using camera traps you can
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Praising slowness - Carl...
act of hypocrisy I'll just give you a very quick overview of what some this what's going on inside the slow movement if you think of food many of you will have heard of the slow food movement started in Italy but has spread across the world and now has a hundred thousand
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Mapping the Highest Peak...
so we're doing our first uh overview pass with the drone so flying at about 50 meters it'll fill any gaps that we might miss with a lidar and with ground-based photographic work this is a really difficult environment drones really help us give the overall perspective
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Daphne Koller: What...
from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free. We currently have 43 courses on the platform from four universities across a range of disciplines, and let me show you a little bit of an overview
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Reimagining Dinosaurs...
vertebrate animals around so we're we're doing this today because of national geographic's october magazine cover story about reimagining dinosaurs is just this incredible overview and look at all the research that's being done around the world um in
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Recruiting Women for...
i want to sit in a seat that has never been held by a woman never you know and i feel that i'm qualified to do that and i was intrigued by that and supported her um if i could just give a quick overview of what we have now in congress
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A path to higher...
that you have to master, directions and overview of the project. The secret sauce of SNHU is combining that competency-based online learning with the in-person learning that we do with partners to provide all the wraparound supports.
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Globalizing communication...
receive messages instantly instantly in your own native language or language of preference any place any time any location and the complete package the technology overview looks like this you
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What it feels like to...
accounting for one-fifth of the world's shipping containers and one half of the annual supply of crude oil. If you look closely at this overview, you'll see a lot of little specks.
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David S. Rose: 10 things...
even if the competition is the old way of doing something. I want to know exactly what your competition is, and that will help me judge how you fit into the whole operation. I want to know how you're special. I know what your competition does -- how are you going to prevent them from eating your lunch? All this ties into the financial overview.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
ask feel but it's a place that has a lot of life obviously and the wolves are there and other species and so just quick overview where we're at this is 80 degrees north it's right next to Greenland and the Wolves there as I said they don't have any fear of humans and so instead of using camera traps you can
Video examples
Praising slowness - Carl...
act of hypocrisy I'll just give you a very quick overview of what some this what's going on inside the slow movement if you think of food many of you will have heard of the slow food movement started in Italy but has spread across the world and now has a hundred thousand
Video examples
Mapping the Highest Peak...
so we're doing our first uh overview pass with the drone so flying at about 50 meters it'll fill any gaps that we might miss with a lidar and with ground-based photographic work this is a really difficult environment drones really help us give the overall perspective
Video examples
Daphne Koller: What...
from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free. We currently have 43 courses on the platform from four universities across a range of disciplines, and let me show you a little bit of an overview
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs...
vertebrate animals around so we're we're doing this today because of national geographic's october magazine cover story about reimagining dinosaurs is just this incredible overview and look at all the research that's being done around the world um in
Video examples
Recruiting Women for...
i want to sit in a seat that has never been held by a woman never you know and i feel that i'm qualified to do that and i was intrigued by that and supported her um if i could just give a quick overview of what we have now in congress
Video examples
A path to higher...
that you have to master, directions and overview of the project. The secret sauce of SNHU is combining that competency-based online learning with the in-person learning that we do with partners to provide all the wraparound supports.
Video examples
Globalizing communication...
receive messages instantly instantly in your own native language or language of preference any place any time any location and the complete package the technology overview looks like this you
Video examples
What it feels like to...
accounting for one-fifth of the world's shipping containers and one half of the annual supply of crude oil. If you look closely at this overview, you'll see a lot of little specks.
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Ron Perlman
American Actor
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
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Susan Barker
British Novelist
My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
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Steve Vai
American Musician
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.
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Jay Roach
American Director
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
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Sheryl Crow
American Musician
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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Howard Hodgkin
British Artist
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
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Stefan Zweig
Austrian Writer
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
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Helen Reddy
Australian Actress
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
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Barbara Steele
British Actress
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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Ron Perlman
American Actor
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
Quote examples
Susan Barker
British Novelist
My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.
Quote examples
Steve Vai
American Musician
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.
Quote examples
Jay Roach
American Director
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
Quote examples
Sheryl Crow
American Musician
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
Quote examples
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Quote examples
Howard Hodgkin
British Artist
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Quote examples
Stefan Zweig
Austrian Writer
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Quote examples
Helen Reddy
Australian Actress
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
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Barbara Steele
British Actress
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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