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outline English

Meaning outline meaning

What does outline mean?
Definitions in simple English

outline Noun

— An outline is a sketch that shows the general shape of an object.

outline

— verb (= sketch) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of sketch the outline of the book outline his ideas — noun the line that appears to bound an object — noun a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory — noun a schematic or preliminary plan — verb (= draft) draw up an outline or sketch for something draft a speech — verb (= delineate) trace the shape of

Synonyms outline synonyms

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outline English » English

summary sketch contour synopsis draft silhouette shape abstract summarize scheme plan compendium form figure design delineate profile adumbrate plot schema epitome configuration scenario line gist appearance abridgment trace precis limn essentials essay drawing diagram delineation tell survey summarise study stub structure story sketch out skeleton side rough sketch rough draft rough resume recapitulate

Topics outline topics

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States Quality

Shape

Conjugation outline conjugation

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outline · verb

Examples outline examples

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Simple sentences

First, I'm going to do an outline of my new website.
He sketches the outline of the machine.
The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared.
Outline Boston on this map with a red pencil.
Here's a brief outline of my speech.
Tom gave Mary a brief outline of his plan.
The police drew an outline of a body at the scene of the crime to indicate how the body was lying when it was found.

Movie subtitles

In smoky cities the soot settles on me until you can see a dark outline.
Thanks for the outline of American history. but all I asked was, where do the Daltons live?
There's an outline.
Exactly at 1340, my mortar crews will outline the target area.
Only an outline.
My friend Mr. Holland will outline what we have in mind.
But making a park isn't as simple as you outline in your proposal.
It must be shown that the outline of the toroid is equal to the circumference.
And the general outline of the facts seem to be as you stated them.
I think professor Jorgenson should outline his plan. before we make a decision.
I can just distinguish your outline vaguely, but i can just see you.
Good! Then I will outline my plan to you.
The outline of her stomach isn't normal.
Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen.
I'm sure the students would appreciate an outline of your future plans.
I said they would appreciate an outline of your future plans.
I could just see the outline of his figure and then I became so frightened I screamed and.
All I sa was a vague outline.
They remind man of his mortality and reveal the shape and outline of the creatures that expect him in the Bardo, between death and reincarnation.
The outline is complete.
There's a 40-page outline.
Well, in that case, if you would both join us in the office, my friend Mr Holland will outline what we have in mind.
I don't know it was just some kind of big outline in the disintegrator beams.
But, anyway, this is a kind of tentative outline the boys and I have cooked up.
Too many interruptions. Did you get a chance to read that outline?
Did you forget that that was my idea in that outline?
The Inspector will outline his plan to you.
Because the same people are published all the time and should I outline them?
Armbruster, let's have the basic outline.
I can see the outline of the Met station in the distance.
Each person do an outline.
I can outline something else.
I'll outline anything.
I don't think you should outline your best course.
I didn't mean to touch your outline.
We can get along very well without your outline.
What are we gonna do about his outline?

News and current affairs

The first was to adopt an outline of the text of the 2015 Paris agreement.
We know, of course, the broad outline of their all-encompassing fundamentalism, and we have some vague ideas about Al Qaeda as a decentralized network of cells in many countries that seeks to acquire chemical, biological, and perhaps even nuclear weapons.
Here is an outline of the next depression, poised to happen.
So it may be helpful to outline the principles and ideas that guide US foreign policy.
Together with the medical researchers David Ludwig and Dariush Mozaffarian, I have proposed an outline of such an approach.
Obama's policy outline was presented via video to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Governors' Global Warming Summit, and has again been shown in Poznan, Poland, to leaders assembled to flesh out a global warming roadmap.
If, on the other hand, as is its right, Chinese leaders have an alternative vision of what an improved international system might look like, the onus is on them to articulate that vision and outline what they are willing to do to realize it.
But she must convincingly outline practical strategies to resolve South Korea's most serious problems, including high unemployment, worsening educational performance, and North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Japan's government and National Security Council plan to revise the country's National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) by the end of this year.
By revising the country's National Defense Program Guideline (conventionally called an Outline) last December, Koizumi's government began the process of clarifying some of these debilitating ambiguities.

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