Outline

Definition: Outline

Outline

Noun

1. The line that appears to bound an object.

2. A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.

3. A schematic or preliminary plan.

Verb

1. Describe roughly or briefly; "sketch the outline of the book".

2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech".

3. Make a sketch of.

4. Trace the shape of.

5. Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand".

6. Draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "outline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Fine Arts

Post & Telecom

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Outline

List

Contents, table of contents, outline; synopsis.

Outline

Noun: outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line.

Painting

Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.

Plan

Sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.

Representation

Ichnography, cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view; (painting); radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph; spectrogram, heliogram.

Crosswords: Outline

What are you gonna do? Draw the chalk outline around me (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;)

The outline of our lives (It's over Now; performing artist: Neve)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Schaum's Outline of Partial Differential Equations (reference)

• An Outline of Swine Diseases: A Handbook (reference)

• Schaum's Outline of Complex Variables (reference)

• Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China: A Partial Translation of Revised Outline of Chinese Medicine (1972): With an Introductory Study on chang (reference)

• An Outline of Greek Accidence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Criminal Law Outline (reference)

• Outline Of Statistical Development (reference)

• Statistical Outline Of India (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Colouring in the Edge and the Outline [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

In the Grotta del Genovese. This small grotto has paintings dating back some 6,000 years, including the outline of a tuna and the outline of a dolphin. Credit: Fisheries.

Plate VIII. 25. Raia circularis, Couch. From Day, "Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland." 26. Raia plutonia, Garman. Outline by J. C. Van Hook, from a specimen collected by the BLAKE, N. Lat. 32, W. Long. 78, at a depth of 229-334 fathoms. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

A permanent grid station showing outline of sample grid, stainless steel screw used to attach the nylon line, and the invertebrate community typical of the inside roof of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Outline of the subtractive RNA hybridization process to isolate and identify genes whose expression is increased by alcohol. The technique uses cultured cells (e.g., neural cells) grown in the presence or absence of alcohol. Credit: NIAA.

Outline of Coca Plant. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 16 June 1950, loading deck cargo for her impending trans-Pacific voyage to Korea. Her sister ship Kum Kang San is at right. Note 3"/50 dual-purpose gun mounted forward, Republic of Korea flags at bow and stern, mast and "crow's nest", Danforth anchor, navigation lights, ship's bell mounted on the pilothouse front and other details on and around her main deck. On the original print, her old U.S. Navy hull number ("810") is visible in spot welded outline behind her Korean Navy bow number ("704"). USS George A. Johnson (DE-583) is in the left center distance. Credit: NAVY.

In Dry Dock Number 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, circa 1935. Note men painting her boot topping from stages rigged over the side, and outline of her anti-torpedo "blister" where it merges with her forward hull. Credit: NAVY.

Outline of a head. Credit: Library of Congress.

Paul Robeson portrait superimposed on body which includes outline of skull and possibly a country boundary or river. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

What I contend for is the authenticity of the outline.

Moving thus along the walks, her outline appearing entirely black, shaking her torn shawl over her long angular arms, she seemed something like a bat.

All your life you live so close to the truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

What follows is only a brief outline of the use of these drugs as preventive agents. (references)

Despite this outline for management, some patients will decline recommended surgery. (references)

We will then proceed to outline official recommendations on how you should view your child's medications. (references)

Business

Action plans will outline the need for new equipment and systems. (references)

Its goal is to outline what sort of defense Norway can have for a certain sum of money. (references)

More recently, the European Union has approved a directive that attempts to clearly outline what the software industry would like to see happen. (references)

Economic History

Trinidad

Environmental approval for large industrial projects can also be extremely time consuming, and many projects begin with only outline approval. (references)

Portugal

A new government is required to define the broad outline of its policy in a program and present it to the assembly for a mandatory period of debate. (references)

Uk

In the UK, new proposals that came into force in January 2000 outline these areas, and include Cornwall, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, and West Wales and the Valleys. (references)

Human Rights

Japan

Responding to the final report of a Government advisory panel established in 1999 to outline structural reforms to the judicial system, in June the Government announced plans to begin drafting legislation aimed at reducing the average time required to complete criminal trials and civil trials that include witness examination (which lasted an average of 20.5 months in 1999). Its proposals included hiring substantial numbers of additional court and Justice Ministry personnel, revising bar examinations, establishing new graduate law schools to increase the overall number of legal professionals (judges, lawyers, and prosecutors) three-fold by 2010, and requiring that courts and opposing litigants jointly work to improve trial planning by allowing for earlier evidence collection and disclosure. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

Investment Barriers: The Foreign Investment Act of 1991 contains two "negative lists" that outline areas where foreign investment is restricted. (references)

China

While the 2000 NPC brought no significant initiatives, in 2001, the NPC reviewed the outline of the government's 10th five-year plan for China's economic and social development. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

If a U.S. firm is already working with a Kazakhstani entity, the American partner should submit a separate proposal to TDA, following an outline available from TDA. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "outline": broad outline ♦ in bold outline ♦ in outline ♦ outline chart ♦ outline drawing ♦ outline font ♦ outline plan ♦ outline planning permission ♦ rough outline ♦ skeleton outline ♦ small outline ♦ small Outline DIMM. Additional references.

Beginning with "outline": outline-map.

Ending with "outline": smoke-outline.

Afrikaans

skets (design, sketch). (various references)

Albanian

skicë (cartoon, chart, dash, delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, figure, freehand, plan, profile, rough, sketch), plan (blueprint, conception, delineation, design, device, dodge, draft, draught, idea, map, plan, plane, plat, program, programme, project, Rede, schedule, scheme, survey, syllabus, target), përvijim (delineation, line, lineation, profile), konturoj (contour), kontur (contour, line, periphery, ring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خلاصة (abstract, docket, epitome, essence, extract, extraction, gist, pith, precis, quintessence, recap, recapitulation, resume, substance, summary, summation), ‏رسم بياني (diagram, graph, schema, scheme, silhouette), ‏رسم اولي, ‏رسم محيط شيء, ‏أوجز (condense, resume, speak short), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, reduce, shorten, syncopate), ‏إستعرض (enter, inspect, look over, parade, play act, represent, set forth, show, tackle, touch on), ‏الرسم (pictures), ‏الخطوط العريضة (skeleton outline), ‏شرح الخطوط العريضة, ‏خطة (counsel, course, forecast, idea, line of action, plan, policy, project, schedule, schema, tactic), ‏فكرة (conceit, concept, conception, idea, impression, motif, notion, opinion, think, thought, view), ‏حد (border, borderline, boundary, brim, confine, definition, delimit, edge, end, extreme, frontier, limit, margin, mourn, restrict, tauten, terminus, utmost degree, verge), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏مخطط تمهيدي (draft), ‏مختصر (abbreviated, abridged, brief, compendious, concise, precis, shortened, summarized, summary), ‏مسودة (draft, notes, rough copy, sketch), ‏موجز (abridged, brief, briefly, compact, concise, digest, epitomized, laconic, precis, short, summarized, summary), ‏ملخص (abridgement, abstract, compendium, digested, summarized, summary, summed up), ‏كتب العناوين الرئيسية, ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схематично изложение, скица (contour, cure, delineation, design, diagram, draft, draught, freehand drawing, object, plan, plat, plot, schema, scheme, scream, skeleton, sketch, study, vignette), скицирам (adumbrate, delineate, line, plan, plot, rough-hew, sketch, trace, vignette), рисувам контурите на, рисувам очертанията на, контури (lines), очертавам (adumbrate, contour, define, delineate, line, mark out, sketch, trace out), очертание (adumbration, conformation, contour, cutout, delineation, form, line, lineament, shape, silhouette), обрисувам (delineate, depict, picture, portray), описвам в общи черти, нахвърлям (adumbrate, jot down, pounce, skeletonize, sketch, throw off). (various references)

Chinese 

輪廓 , 草稿 (sketch), 略 (plan, rather, slightly, strategy, summary, to plunder, to rob, to summarize), 提綱 , 概述 (Outlined, Outlining, recapitulate). (various references)

Czech

obrys (contour, silhouette), přehled (cadastre, compendium, digest, statement, summary, survey, synopsis, table, view), nastínit (adumbrate, delineate), narýsovat, naèrtnout (block out, delineate, design, draft, draught, draw up, touch off, trace), nástin, náèrt (delineation, draught, rough copy, roughcast), kontura (contour). (various references)

Danish

omrids, ramme (baseboard, bent, frame, framework, framing, portal, raster, to pun, to ram, to tamp, tool framework, tubular support stays). (various references)

Dutch

omtrek (circumference, contour, environment, environs, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, surroundings). (various references)

Esperanto

skizo (design, sketch), silueto (silhouette), konturo (contour). (various references)

Faeroese

upprit (design, sketch), umhvarv (contour, silhouette), strikumynd (design, sketch), skuggamynd (silhouette), fjallagrein (silhouette). (various references)

Farsi 

پیرامون (About, Around, Circumference), مختصریاخلاصه چیزی راتهیه کردن , زمینه (Background, Base, Basis, Conspectus, Context, Design, Ground, Groundwork, Root, Sketch, Tendency, Terrain, Theme), طرح ریزی کردن (Contrive, Plot, Project), طرح (Cast, Diagram, Draft, Knack, Layout, Machination, Model, Module, Pattern, Plan, Plat, Plot, Project, Projection, Proposal, Schema, Scheme, Skeleton, Sketch), خلاصه (Abstract, Compendium, Condensation, Digest, Epitome, Extract, Resume, Scantling, Schema, Short, Sketch, Sum, Summary, Summation, Synopsis, Upshot), رءوس مطالب , شکل اجمالی . (various references)

Finnish

ääriviiva (contour). (various references)

French

silhouette, contour, esquisse, configuration. (various references)

German

Kontur (contour), umriss (adumbration, contour, contoured, profile), Umriß (contour, contoured), Skizze (delineation, design, plan, sketch, sketching, trace), Silhouette (silhouette), Entwurf (bill, blueprint, concept, design, diagram, draft, drawing, framework, plan, plane, plot, project, scheme, sketch, specification). (various references)

Greek 

σκιαγραφώ (adumbrate, block in, delineate, silhouette, sketch), περίγραμμα (ambit, circumscription, contour, template). (various references)

Hebrew 

תווי (alignment, laying out, plotting, sketching), ראשי פרקים, קו (cord, line, streak, string), קו חצון, קוי יסוד, שלד (frame, skeleton), סרטוט (draft, drawing, sketch), תאור (account, depiction, description, narration, portrayal, representation, sketch), מתוה (draft, sketch), תמצית (abstract, decoction, digest, epitome, essence, gist, heart, marrow, pith, quintessence, sap, summary, syllabus, synopsis), לסרטט (design, draw, sketch), לרשום ראשי פרקים (note), לרשום מתאר, לתוות (design, lay out, plot, sketch), מתאר (contour, descriptive, profile), תרשים (chart, design, diagram, graph, plan, sketch). (various references)

Hungarian

körvonal (circle, configuration, contour, line, profile, silhouette). (various references)

Indonesian

menggariskan (trace the line of, underline, underscore), guratan (facial scrinkle, sketch), garis besar. (various references)

Italian

progetto (arrangement, design, device, diagram, layout, plan, plane, project, scheme, sketch), contorno (boundary, contour, edge, fixing, garnish, side dish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

摘要 (summary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうがい (deploration, disclosure, epitome, off grounds, off-campus, out of school, out of the pit, outside a port or harbor, outside the premises, outskirts, palate, patriotic lamentation, pollution, pollution or environmental damage due to mining, public nuisance, reveal, righteous indignation, suburb, summary), ていよう (compendium, summary), てきよう (applying, summary), はんろん (general remarks, objection, rebuttal, refutation), ようらん (cradle, handbook, orchid of Western origin, summary, survey), ようりょう (capacity, dose, electrical capacitance, essentials, gist, point), ようりゃく (epitome, summary), ようず (rough sketch), アウトライン , あらすじ (summary), りんかくせん, りゃくじゅつ (summary), りゃくせつ (summary), だいたい (battalion, change of ownership, general, main point, subrogation, substantially, substitution, thigh), こうよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), たいこう (antagonism, archduke, body cavity, corresponding, counter-, distinguished or meritorious service, empress dowager, expulsion, face, father of the Imperial adviser, fundamental principles, general features, great talent, leaving school, light pink, opposite, opposition, pertaining to school, queen mother, regression, retrogression, Toyotomi Hideyoshi), つうろん (introduction, vehement argument), さつよう (compendium, summary), がいよう (external use, ocean, open sea, summary), がいろん (general remarks, intro), がいりゃく (gist, in brief, summary), がいかく (contour, crust, external angle, outer block, outer wall, outside corner, overseas guest or customer, shell), がいかん (appearance, customs house, exterior, external pressure, facade, foreign threat, general view), がいせつ (adequacy, appropriateness, aptness, circumscription, general statement), おおすじ (summary), すじがき (plot, synopsis), たいけい (battle formation, compendium, corporal punishment, disposition of troops, farsighted policy, figure, form, grand-scale or long-range plan, great joy, honorific title for someone a little older, jail sentence, older brother, organization, survey, system), たいよう (important point, ocean, situation, solar, summary, sun, terms), たいりゃく (approximately, excellent plan), りゃくひつ (simplified form of a kanji, synopsis). (various references)

Korean 

개략. (various references)

Manx

jannoo cummey jeh, feegan (cobweb, extremity, rim, spider lines, spider's web, spider's web round), cummey (adaptation, appearance, atmosphere, composition, design, devise, fabricate, feature, format, indite, invention, itinerary, mould, plan, prospectus, shape, version). (various references)

Pig Latin

outlineay.(various references)

Portuguese

esboço (delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, framing, layout, lineation, picture, plan, schema, sketch, vignette). (various references)

Romanian

schiţã (adumbration, contour, delineation, design, draft, draught, drawing, line, plan, plot, shorter, sketch, sketching), schiţa (adumbrate, block in, block out, chalk out, chart, delineate, design, draw, figure, pencil, plan, rough draft, sketch, take a sketch of), schemã (chart, diagram, draft, lay out, network, plan, schedule, schema, scheme, set up, sketch), prezenta în linii generale, plan (contrivance, counsel, design, device, disposition, draft, even, idea, intention, level, map, meaning, plain, plan, plane, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, scheme, scheming, skeleton, syllabus, tabular), face o schiţã (rough, sketch, take a sketch of), contura (appear, contour, define, delineate, skeletonize, sketch), contur (contour, figuration, line, perimeter, profile, set), conspect (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, conspectus, summary, syllabus), ciornã (a rough copy, draft, rough copy). (various references)

Russian 

эскиз (design, draft, rough draft, sketch), контур (circuit, contour, cutout, keyline, path, sidebar), очертание (configuration, contour, cutout, fashion, figure, form, profile, shape, skyline), нарисовать контур, набросок (draft, drawing, jotting, minute, skeleton, sketch), а� (adventurous, alcohol, amphibious vehicle, automate, farm, lamb, orange, persist, poster, wheezy), абрис (contour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

okosnica (framework, skeleton), ocrtati (adumbrate, define, delineate, sketch), obris (contour), skicirati (adumbrate, block out, draft, sketch), potez (line, move, stroke), kratak pregled (summary), kontura (contour, definition), dati u glavnim crtama, šema (diagram, scheme). (various references)

Spanish

esquema (diagram, formula, plan, schema, scheme, skeleton, sketch), contorno (contour, figuration, profile, skyline). (various references)

Swedish

skissera (block out, delineate, draft, rough out, sketch, trace), skiss (delineation, draft, layout, plat, sketch), kontur (contour, skyline). (various references)

Turkish

taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, draught, drawing, plan, rough, roughcast, schema, silhouette, skeleton, sketch, study, tracing, visual), taslağını çizmek (adumbrate, delineate, draft, draught, draw, draw out, rough in, rough out, roughcast, sketch), kontur, iskelet (atomy, bones, carcase, carcass, frame, framework, skeletal, skeleton), görüntüsü yansımak, dış çizgi, ana hatlarıyla belirtmek, ana hat (main line, trunk, trunk line), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, precis, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), özet (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, compress, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, gist, precis, resume, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis). (various references)

Turkmen 

sudur (outline 1), юekel (form, outline 1, sketch). (various references)

Ukrainian

обвід, абрис, ескіз (sketch), зробити начерк, намалювати контур, намітити в загальних рисах, накреслити в загальних рисах, накреслити контур, план (blueprint, chart, dart, delineation, design, device, idea, layout, map, plan, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, proposition, scheme), нарис (essay), схема (cadre, chart, device, diagram, pattern, plan, schema, skeleton), обрис (delineation, profile), окреслювати (circumscribe, delineate, describe), основи (a.b.c., abc, accidence, elements, essentials, foundations, grounds), основні принципи (bed-rock), відтіняти (show off, tint), контур (contour, periphery, profile), конспект (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, compendium, conspectus, epitome, precis, recap, recapitulation, scheme, summary, syllabus, workbook), начерк (bosh, sketch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nguyên tắc chung, nét ngoài, nét đại cương, hình bóng nét phác, đường nét hình dáng, đề cương (design). (various references)

Welsh

braslun (sketch), amlinellu, amlinelliad, amlinell (contour). (various references)

adumbrabat, conformari, conformes, deformata, deformati, deformes, inchoante, inchoasti, inchoat, inchoationis, inchoaverunt, inchoavi, inchoavit, lineamentum. (various references)

contour. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "outline": outlined, outliner, outliners, outlines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Outline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: footline, Foutaine, Ortlieb, Ortolani, outie, outillage, outine, Outinen, outlife. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: elution.

-1 letter: entoil, lutein, outlie.

-2 letters: elint, eloin, inlet, lento, louie, lunet, olein, teloi, toile, unite, unlet, unlit, untie, until, utile.

-3 letters: enol, etui, into, leno, lent, lien, lieu, line, lino, lint, lion, lite, litu, loin, lone, loti, lout, lune, lunt, lute, nite, noel, noil, note, tile, tine, toil, tole, tolu, tone, tule, tune, unit.

+1 letter: elutions, involute, luteolin, outlined, outliner, outlines, unpolite.

+2 letters: bluepoint, elocution, emulation, evolution, inoculate, involuted, involutes, longitude, luteolins, multitone, outliners, routinely, toluidine, touchline, unholiest.

+3 letters: bluepoints, consultive, devolution, ebullition, elocutions, eluviation, emulations, equational, evaluation, evolutions, exsolution, exultation, feuilleton, flounciest, fluorinate, fluoxetine, gelatinous, glauconite, gluttonies, guillotine, ineloquent, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, laureation, licentious, longitudes, nebulosity, neutrophil, novaculite, nucleation, nucleotide, obnubilate, outdueling, outfeeling, outleaping, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, outyelping, peculation, pleustonic, regulation, resolution, revolution, rouletting, suppletion, tendrilous, toluidines, tonguelike, touchlines, tourmaline, ulceration, ungodliest, unifoliate, urogenital.