The difference between preview and overview
is that “preview” is an experience of something in advance and “overview” is a brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
preview
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overview
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Noun
- An experience of something in advance.
- (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
- Something seen in advance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.
Exemple
- Synonym: foretaste
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
Verb
- To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
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Noun
- A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
- An inspection.
Examples
- With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what’s happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
- Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
Verb
- To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
Examples
- 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.
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