Summary and Table

Summary

Summary noun - A short statement of the main points.

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Table and summary are semantically related in thing topic. In some cases you can use "Table" instead a noun "Summary".

Table noun - A leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food.

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Summary and table are semantically related in diagram with columns of information topic. Sometimes you can use "Summary" instead a noun "Table".

Nearby Words: tablet, tabling, tabled, tabular, tableful

good	good summary	good table
full	full summary	full table
long	long summary	long table
complete	complete summary	complete table
Other adjectives: original, small, actual, entire, real, great, little, final, inaccurate, basic, handy, lengthy.

Dick's A Maze Of Death subverts this; the table of contents contains a brief summary-like name for each chapter, but every such "summary" is about one of the fourteen characters doing something that has nothing at all to do with the chapter contents, or the novel at all.

Source: In Which a Trope Is Described
Summary: Bucky Barnes screamed himself hoarse on that table and screamed falling off that train.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Captain America: The Winter Soldier
During a War Table mission, Sebastian gathers his forces in Starkhaven and launches an invasion of Kirkwall to annex it (off-screen, you learn this in the summary of the mission).

Source: Video Game / Dragon Age: Inquisition

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