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compendium

/kuhm-pen-dee-uhm/US // kəmˈpɛn di əm //UK // (kəmˈpɛndɪəm) //

汇编,大纲,简编,大系

Related Words

sketch简图,素描,草图,简述essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派manual手册brief简介,简要,简短的,简短summary摘要,概要,概述,撮要syllabus大纲,教学大纲,提纲,课程大纲survey调查,调查表,调查报告,观察conspectus纲要,指南,细则,指南针overview概述,概况,综述,概观handbook手册,手记epitome缩影,表征,缩略语,外显子guide指南,指导,导读,导游digest摘要,文摘,消化,消化液pandect泛德,泛德公司,泛道德,泛道德化

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a [kuhm-pen-dee-uh]. /kəmˈpɛn di ə/.

    • : a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
    • : a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
    • : a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounabridgment
Synonyms
abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派brief简介,简要,简短的,简短conspectus纲要,指南,细则,指南针digest摘要,文摘,消化,消化液epitome缩影,表征,缩略语,外显子essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹guide指南,指导,导读,导游handbook手册,手记manual手册overview概述,概况,综述,概观sketch简图,素描,草图,简述summary摘要,概要,概述,撮要survey调查,调查表,调查报告,观察syllabus大纲,教学大纲,提纲,课程大纲aperçupandect泛德,泛德公司,泛道德,泛道德化précissylloge音节,音轨

Examples

  • The compendium that Sorensen gave Kennedy contains about 150 speeches.

  • Similar in technique to Fingrutd’s video but more politically pointed, Carlos Franco’s “” is a feverish compendium of outrages against Puerto Rico.

  • To help, FiveThirtyEight is compiling The Greatness Files, a compendium of, well, what makes great athletes great.

  • To learn everything about how to become a poll worker in your state, the EAC has a comprehensive compendium with all the details.

  • Ultimately, though, it feels like more of a compendium piece than a fully formed documentary.

  • They Came Together is a compendium of every romcom cliché known to man.

  • This week, a memoir of liberation, a biography of Ariel Sharon, and a comprehensive compendium from a master poet.

  • The Scarfe cartoon would comfortably fit in any compendium of such grotesqueries.

  • (Tobin contents himself with offering one link in his entire piece, which takes you a compendium of all of Steinfels's work).

  • His compendium of Galen was the text-book of medicine in the West for many centuries.

  • A compendium would be the bread-fruit, within reach, and easily plucked.

  • The present work is not a compendium of astronomy or an outline course of popular reading in that science.

  • Below will be found a compendium of Virginia conventions, with the names of the delegates returned by Loudoun County.

  • This compendium, together with the Compendium of Metaphysics, was republished at Strassburg in 1722.

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