overall impression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverallandimpression
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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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impression
noun
uk/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/us/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/
an idea or opinion of what something or someone ...
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(Definition ofoverallandimpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoverall impression
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Heroverallimpressionis that she came to teaching with 'a very good background to teach'.
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Perhaps inevitably, theoverallimpressiongiven by the book is rather unfocused.
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The colors are varied and striking and contribute to theoverallimpressionof exactness in the detail and variety in the general.
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Ratings were averaged to create a measure of theoverallimpressioneach study member made.
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But theoverallimpressionone gets from cross-tabulated tables is that attention strongly determines participation and vice versa.
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Theoverallimpressionreceived from the symposium was that the mechanisms used by cells (including bacteria) for genome maintenance are extremely complex.
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The selection of topics is idiosyncratic and their compilation under the given title cannot help but convey a misleadingoverallimpressionof the field.
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However, this explains only a small part of theoverallimpressionof the rooms.
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It was ouroverallimpressionthat these different functional properties did not depend upon the region of retina in which they were being recorded.
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Theoverallimpressionis that these widows were not doing too badly.
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For both men and women theoverallimpressionis one of similar differences with age of spouse for each cause of death.
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Perhaps for this reason theoverallimpressionis a lack of coherence.
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The ' 'actual perception' ' takes place without imagination, but the more unified ' 'overallimpression' ' does not.
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It would be nice to see publication times cut a little further still, although myoverallimpressionis that all publication delays are shortening.
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They also provided anoverallimpressionof the speech samples.
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Theoverallimpressionis thus one of external advice, interference and mounting pressure rather than a simple transfer of powers to the centre.
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Many words end in vowels, and theoverallimpressionis a language which is agreeable to the ear.
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Theoverallimpression, watching the spectacle on television, was of a nation now utterly caught in its own time-warp.
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