different between preamble vs overview

English

Alternative forms

• præamble (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambul? (“I walk before”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?i??amb?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?i?æmb?l/

Noun

preamble (plural preambles)

1. A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.

   Synonyms: foreword, preface, prologue; see also Thesaurus:foreword

   Antonyms: afterword, conclusion, epilogue, last word, postamble; see also Thesaurus:afterword

2. (computing, networking) A syncword.

Translations

Verb

preamble (third-person singular simple present preambles, present participle preambling, simple past and past participle preambled)

1. (intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

Further reading

• preamble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

over- +? view

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?vju?/

Noun

overview (plural overviews)

1. A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. An inspection.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?

Translations

Verb

overview (third-person singular simple present overviews, present participle overviewing, simple past and past participle overviewed)

1. To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
   • 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [2], ?ISBN, page 313:

     Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.