the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
a drawing or sketch restricted to line without shading or modeling of form.
a general sketch, account, or report, indicating only the main features, as of a book, subject, or project: an outline of medieval history; an outline of a speech.
outlines,the essential features or main aspects of something under discussion: At the first meeting, we gave her only the outlines of the project.
Printing. an ornamented type in which the outside contours of each character appear in black, with the inside left white.
verb (used with object),out·lined,out·lin·ing.
to draw the outline of, or draw in outline, as a figure or object.
to give an outline of; sketch the main features of: On the first day, the professor just outlined the course for us.
Origin of outline
First recorded in 1655–65; out- + line1
SYNONYMS FOR outline
3 plan, draft, rough, synopsis, summary.
6, 7 delineate, draft.
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synonym study for outline
1. See form.
OTHER WORDS FROM outline
pre·out·line,noun,verb (used with object),pre·out·lined,pre·out·lin·ing.re·out·line,verb (used with object),re·out·lined,re·out·lin·ing.well-outlined,adjective
Words nearby outline
outlay, outleap, outlet, outlier, out like a light, outline, outline font, outlive, outlook, out loud, outlying
When everything is named for its discoverer, it can be impossible even to track the outline of a debate without months of rote memorization.
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Facebook said it observed “more than a 50% drop” in publisher revenue when personalized targeting was taken out of the equation —though it didn’t publish a detailed outline of the study.
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San Diego County officials are working with the state on a plan to re-open certain businesses, now that the county is off the state’s monitoring list, and could release the outline next week, the Union-Tribune reports.
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Instead, try pitching blog post ideas or outlines where you can create original, unique content for each website.
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Still, in name recognition and salary — their nearly $240 million payroll led baseball in 2013, and that number ballooned to $246 million and $303 million over the next two seasons — the outline of a superteam was there.
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Just hours after the announcement in Beijing, Republican senators began to outline just how much they disdained the new agreement.
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“I had this outline that said I was going to be done in nine months,” Caro said.
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Sometimes he would just have an outline of the scene and we would build the dialogue out with our own words.
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This spurred Creative Director Adam Isgreen, who also worked on Killer Instinct, to outline of a Phantom Dust reboot—just in case.
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Teardrops flow between the eyes as a flame emanates from the outline of his body.
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Mrs. Morris then proceeded to give in fragmentary speeches an outline of the constitution and government of the estate.
Desperate Remedies|Thomas Hardy
The theme was not dissimilar to that which has been here presented in outline.
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century|Various
The outline of the leafy part is triangular in form, and on either side of the rachis are the tapering pinnæ.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Then it forms a strong and resisting chorion, which imparts to the egg an outline similar to that of a bridges span.
Parasites|T. Spencer Cobbold
A teacher directs a pupil to make an outline before he writes a composition or delivers a speech.
Public Speaking|Clarence Stratton
British Dictionary definitions for outline
outline
/ (ˈaʊtˌlaɪn) /
noun
a preliminary or schematic plan, draft, account, etc
(usually plural)the important features of an argument, theory, work, etc
the line by which an object or figure is or appears to be bounded
a drawing or manner of drawing consisting only of external lines
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