summing up
Speech parts
1. summing up - Noun
2. summing up - Verb
Meaning
summing up
present participle of sum up
summing up (plural summings up)
A summary of the main points, especially (law) a judge's recapitulation of the evidence given to a jury before it withdraws to consider its verdict.
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summing-up
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Dickinson (1995), p. 154 Holst's final composition, the orchestral scherzo movement of a projected symphony, contains features characteristic of much of Holst's earlier music—"a summing up of Holst's orchestral art", according to Short.
Coggin’s defence barrister Richard Lloyd Smith QC in his summing up, told the jury that the stabbing of Aaron Pill was completely accidental and only happened because the victim unexpectedly put up a struggle.
Collects The collects come at the close of the office and are short prayers summing up the supplications of the congregation.
However, notice that, if we are given a particular subset (often called a certificate ), we can easily check or verify whether the subset sum is zero, by just summing up the integers of the subset.
In addition to reversing the wrongs done by Adam, Irenaeus thinks of Christ as "recapitulating" or "summing up" human life.
In the present case he writes a whole paragraph, summing up the main lessons of the epistle in terse, eager, disjointed sentences.