put+in+a+nutshell
11in a nutshell — spoken used for saying that you are going to express something in a simple direct way To put it in a nutshell, we lost the case …
12to put it in a nutshell — used when you are going to explain a long or complicated idea, story etc in a quick and simple way …
13trim — v 1. clip, snip, nip, prune, pare; cut, bob, crop, shingle; shear, shave, fleece, pollard, poll, scalp, cut down to the quick; neaten, even up; shape, form, fashion, sculpt, sculp, sculpture. 2.Often trim off dock, bobtail, lop, chop, hack, cut… …
14digest — [n] abridgement of something written abstract, aperçu, brief, compendium, condensation, epitome, pandect, précis, résumé, short form, sketch, summary, survey, syllabus, sylloge, synopsis; concept 271 Ant. unabridgement digest [v1] assimilate food …
15simplify — [v] make easy, intelligible abridge, analyze, boil down, break down, break it down, chasten, clarify, clean it up*, clean up, clear up, cut down, cut the frills*, decipher, disentangle, disinvolve, draw a picture*, elucidate, explain, facilitate …
16Paulo Francis — Franz Paul Trannin da Matta Heilborn, also known as Paulo Francis, (Rio de Janeiro, September 2, 1930–New York, February 4, 1997), was a Brazilian journalist, political pundit, novelist and critic.A controversial personality, Francis became a… …
17Darwin , Charles Robert — (1809–1882) British naturalist Darwin, who was born in Shrewsbury, began his university education by studying medicine at Edinburgh (1825), but finding he had no taste for the subject he entered Cambridge University to prepare for the Church. At… …
18summarize — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. prune down, cut back, sum, cipher, abstract, skim over, review, count up, compile, shorten, paraphrase, memory up*, put in a nutshell*; see also decrease 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. run down briefly, encapsulate,… …
19sum — I. n. 1. Aggregate amount, total, totality, the whole, sum total, gross amount. 2. Quantity of money, any amount. 3. Summary, compendium, amount, substance, sum and substance. 4. Height, completion, summit, acme. 5. Question (in arithmetic),… …
20abridge — verb she was hired to abridge the works of Shakespeare for a children s book club Syn: shorten, cut, cut short, cut down, curtail, truncate, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune; abbreviate, condense, contract, compress, reduce, decrease, shrink …
