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- [out-lahyn]
- /ˈaʊtˌlaɪn/
- /ˈaʊtlaɪn/
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- [out-lahyn]
- /ˈaʊtˌlaɪn/
Definitions of outline word
- noun outline the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour. 1
- noun outline a drawing or sketch restricted to line without shading or modeling of form. 1
- noun outline 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. 1
- noun outline outlines, the essential features or main aspects of something under discussion: At the first meeting, we gave her only the outlines of the project. 1
- noun outline Printing. an ornamented type in which the outside contours of each character appear in black, with the inside left white. 1
- verb with object outline to draw the outline of, or draw in outline, as a figure or object. 1
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Origin of outline
First appearance:
before 1655 One of the 46% oldest English words
First recorded in 1655-65; out- + line1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Outline
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
outline popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
outline usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for outline
adjective outline
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- unwrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- unsorted — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- sketchy — like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials. Synonyms: cursory, rough, meager, crude.
verb outline
- draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- delineate — If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- chart — A chart is a diagram, picture, or graph which is intended to make information easier to understand.
- sketch — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
noun outline
- shape — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- contour — You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
- silhouette — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- profile — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
Antonyms for outline
verb outline
noun outline
- inside — on the inner side or part of; within: inside the circle; inside the envelope.
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