Give a brief outline of your objectives, a history of the program, and long range plans.

After a brief outline of the day's itinerary, we proceed to my check-up.

She generally creates a brief outline before beginning a new book, with one or two sentences about what will happen in each chapter.

He offered her only a brief outline of the story, withholding some of the more graphic details for fear that she might refuse the role.

For a brief outline of the theory see spin wave.