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synopsis
/sɪˈnɒpsɪs/
noun
1 A brief summary or general survey of something.
1.1 An outline of the plot of a play, film, or book.
Origin
Early 17th century: via late Latin from Greek, from sun- ‘together’ + opsis ‘seeing’.
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Carl carefully constructed a synopsis of the long blog post, knowing the habits of his readers. At the end of the summary, he added the abbreviation "TL;DR" -- "too long; didn't read" and wrote out the details.
