1. (verb)summary, sum-up a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
2. (verb)sum up, summarize, summarise, resume give a summary (of) "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
3. (verb)summarize, summarise, sum, sum up be a summary of "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
4. (verb)total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up determine the sum of "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"