# aperçu
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aperçu.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌa.pɛːˈsjuː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˌæ.pɚˈsuː/

### Noun

aperçu (plural aperçus)
* A clever insight.
** 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 143:I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.
** 2001 December, David Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-04:In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.
** 2004 November 10, Manohla Dargis, “Do you hear sleigh bells? Nah, just Tom Hanks and some train”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-11:Every so often a hobo (Mr. [Tom] Hanks again) materializes to dispense a cryptic aperçu to the boy, maybe because the child is the father of the man or because the film's envelope-pushing gobbled up most of the budget and there was only enough money for one star.
** 2009 February 22, Maureen Dowd, “Dark dark dark”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:President [Barack] Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton's talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.(Can we archive this URL?)
** 2014 October 31, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-21:While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
** 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →ISBN:These paragraphs contain many freighted aperçus, formulations over which debates continue to rage, such as that ‘[t]he executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’ (1.12); […]
* An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* earcup

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.pɛʁ.sy/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

aperçu m (plural aperçus)
* glance, glimpse
* insight, hint
    L’avocat a donné au public un aperçu de la cause. ― The lawyer gave the public an insight into the case.
* rough estimate
    Donnez-moi un aperçu des dépenses que j’aurai à faire. ― Give me an estimate of the expenses that I would have.
* sketch, outline, summary
* view
* overview
    Ce que je vous dis là n’est qu’un aperçu de la question. ― What I say here is just an overview of the issue.
* preview
    Il y a dans cet ouvrage des aperçus très fins, mais rien n’est développé. ― There are fine previews in this book, but nothing developed.

### Participle

aperçu (feminine aperçue, masculine plural aperçus, feminine plural aperçues)
* past participle of apercevoir

### Interjection

aperçu
* (nautical) aye, aye

### Further reading

* “aperçu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.