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How to pronounce precis in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abstract, outline, synopsis
Type of sum-up, summary
Has types epitome, apercu, brief
Type Words
Type of resume, sum up, summarise, summarize

Examples of precis

precis
One of the pots was a precis of virtually every attitude on these threads.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her job was to shrink thousands of pages of deposition to a simple precis.
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It's an ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to precis.
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Just hearing that plot precis must have given parents the cold sweats.
From the time.com
A precis of Newtonian gravity can be found in Schutz 2003, chapters 2-4.
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The full text of the document can be found here, but here's a precis.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
And just as I type that Ian Bishop comes to the rescue with a neat precis of the situation.
From the guardian.co.uk
The page consisted of a brief precis, and was acknowledged as such, being marked as a stub.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Could somebody please precis this down into a single sentence.
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More examples
  • Make a summary (of)
  • Outline: a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
  • PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies, pronounced pray-sea) is developed at the Hadley Centre at the UK Met Office, PRECIS is a regional climate modelling system designed to run on a Linux based PC. ...
  • Pru00E9cis is the debut full-length album by Portland, Oregon based musician Benoit Pioulard, released by Kranky on October 16, 2006.
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  • A summary or synopsis of a work. A shortened version of a passage.