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单词 outliner
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outlinern.

Brit. /ˈaʊtlʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌlaɪnər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: outline v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < outline v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who or thing which outlines something, or makes or creates an outline (in various senses).
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1859 Southern Literary Messenger 29 163 She wore the peculiar head gear, in which Retzch had delineated the Lady many years since... What a genius the great outliner must have had?
1899 J. D. Steele Pop. Astron. iii. 238 Four brilliant stars..mark the outliners of Orion.
1935 E. F. Carritt Morals & Politics i. viii. 104 Marx and Engels, the first outliners of dialectical materialism.
1979 Sci. Fiction Voices No. 1. 60 I'm one of those meticulous outliners... I have a general idea, and then gradually fill it out, add more detail.
2. Computing. A computer program, or part of a program, which allows its user to create and edit a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a document, to aid in its structuring and arrangement.
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1984 Business Week 20 Aug. 103/2 ThinkTank allows users to make an outline of a document, with headings and subheadings, then manipulate information under each heading... Already, two software companies have built these so-called outliners into their products.
1996 J. R. Hayes & J. G. Nash in C. M. Levy & S. Ransdell Sci. of Writing ii. 51 Writers were provided, in addition, with an online outliner that allowed them to arrange the sequence and subordination of ideas.
2002 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. 44 These days, the only truly prominent place to find an outliner is within a larger..software package, such as a word processor or presentation app.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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