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Panorama vs Overview - What's the difference?

panorama | overview |

As nouns the difference between panorama and overview

is that panorama is view while overview is a brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

As a verb overview is

to engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.

panorama

English

Noun

(wikipedia panorama) (en-noun)
  • An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
  • A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.
  • (figuratively)  a comprehensive survey.

    • Descendants

    * German: ----

    overview

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia overview) (en noun)
  • A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
  • * 1976 , Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [http://books.google.com/books?id=mtHEnnMKh3gC], ISBN 0870730150, 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.