单词 | summing up |
释义 | summing upn. 1. The calculation of the sum total of a set of figures; adding up; an instance of this. Now rare. ΚΠ 1607 J. Harington in tr. J. de Mediolano Englishmans Docter sig. A5 The Summing vp of costly bils. 1651 Mercurius Politicus 28 Aug.-4 Sept. 1038 They shall not depart before the summing up of all accounts with their Creditors and Debtors. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 164/2 At the annual summing up it is of great importance to distinguish them in the accounts. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 10 The judges have nothing to do with the..‘summing up’ of the marks given. 1971 Pacific Insects Monogr. 25 101 With a summing-up of the figures given under ‘dark’ and ‘somber’ on one side, and ‘pale’ and ‘white’ on the other, a correlation does seem clearly established between degree of pigmentation and geographical situation. 2. a. A speech made by a judge near the end of legal trial, in which the evidence and main points of the case are briefly restated before the jury makes its decision. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > summing up by judge summing up1641 summing1681 1641 (title) The speech or declaration of John Pym, Esquire after the recapitulation or summing up of the charge of high-treason, against Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 12 April, 1641. 1719 F. Atterbury Let. 4 Aug. in A. Pope Lit. Corr. (1735) II. 57 The Substance of what they all said is..intermixed with my own Thoughts in my summing up to the Jury. 1883 Manch. Examiner 22 Dec. 5/3 A luminous and unimpeachably fair summing up by Lord Justice Clerk Moncrieff. 1954 Times 24 Feb. 5/4 In his summing-up the Judge referred to a Mr. Chivers, a £75,000 pools winner, who invested £10,000 in the company. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) viii. 178 I sat in on the barristers' speeches and judge's summing up in a rape trial. b. The act of stating only the main or essential points of something; summarizing. Also: an instance of this; a summary. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing summing?a1425 concluding1659 summing up1795 summarizing1808 summarizing1849 summarization1862 potting1909 the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing > summary sum1340 conclusionc1405 capitlea1425 docketa1483 chapiter1483 summary1509 summar1565 collection1579 continent1590 epilogue1646 summing up1795 sum-up1848 sum totalization1855 run-through1946 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > synoptical statement abstract1436 titling1465 capitulation1523 aphorism1528 argument1535 table1560 analysis1588 the brief1601 abstractive1611 synopsis1611 method1614 synopsy1616 modela1626 scheme1652 syllabus1653 précis1760 summing up1795 aperçu1828 conspectus1839 vidimus1884 auto-abstract1892 standfirst1972 1795 Edinb. Mag. Oct. 309/1 The summing up of the process-verbaux of the Primary Assemblies. 1883 Athenæum 15 Dec. 771/3 The author's summing-up on the subject. 1936 D. Starch et al. Controlling Human Behavior iv. 82 This is a free summing up of the essential phases of the Alexander technique. 2009 B. Buzan & L. Hansen Evol. Internat. Security Stud. 3 We return to the question of progress in our summing up of ISS in chapter 9. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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