(n.) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
(n.) A lawyer's brief.
(v. t.) To abbreviate.
Example Sentences:
Precis
Definition:
(n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact remains the information Michel was relaying was usually a fair precis of what Smith told him by text or email, often just a few minutes previously.
(2) Here's as good a precis of this game so far as you'll read, courtesy of Matt Dony: "Watching this game is like flicking back and forth between, say, Barcelona vs Spain, and QPR vs Sunderland circa their last dalliance with the Premier League.
(3) make a precis of trials of different types of immunotherapy and as well of researches object of future therapeutic use.
(4) The delicate and precis digital motor mechanism is frequently affected by this disease and the consequences are devastating, with marked functional impairment.
(5) In precis, he realised, after years of trial and error, "that he doesn't have the kind of body that allows him to eat whatever he likes" and thereafter, cut out sugar, alcohol, any solids at all after 2pm, and refined carbohydrates .
(6) But the fact remains that the information Michel was relaying was more often than not a fair precis of what Smith had told him in an SMS or email, often just a few minutes previously.
(7) North American Precis Syndicate, Inc. (NAPS), distributes public information through various channels.
(8) If you’ve somehow managed to miss the opening eight months of the Premier League season you could have picked up a pretty decent precis of the action so far just by watching Sunday’s games at the Stadium of Light and White Hart Lane.
(9) In the fall of 1982, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Public Health Service, engaged the services of the North American Precis Syndicate, Inc., to distribute two columns on health promotion to suburban newspapers.
(10) That precis doesn't quite evoke the tone of the attack: another Twitter feminist defended Lewis later with: "It is never OK to call another woman a vicious rancid bitch."
(11) As we walk back through Soho, he rattles off an impatient precis: "The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing too.
(12) technic and his results; the neurilemmoma can be diagnosed before his extension over the limits of the intervertebral foramen, but only if a precis neurological level is known.
(13) Minions provide them with what they call coverage, which is movie jargon for precis.
(14) If she had not concealed her use of Mildronate from the anti-doping authorities, members of her own support team and the doctors whom she consulted, but had sought advice, then the contravention would have been avoided.” In precis, the tribunal ruled that taking the substance regularly at the Australian Open effectively proved that she did not know it had been banned.
(15) In addition to the peculiar response to cautery, the dorsal hindwing of Precis also develops a series of unique pattern aberrations in response to coldshock.
(16) Cautery of the dorsal hindwing in the butterfly, Precis coenia, induces the formation of a concentric colour pattern around the site of injury.
(17) The assay is rapid and adequately specific, sensitive, precies, and reproducible for routine clinical use.
(18) A precis of the historical development CPN education is provided and a stronger relationship with the Mental Nurses Committee is proposed.
(19) By treating larvae of different ages with a JH mimic, pupal commitment of the epidermis of the butterfly, Precis coenia, was found to occur in a strict temporal and spatial progression, which was serially homologous and occurred independently in each segment.
(20) In the case report the overdenture prosthesis replacing the subtotal edentulousness is fixed by a Preci-Horix anchorage of individual design built on the tooth roots.