Definition: 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. 4. Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of. 5. Draw up an outline or sketch for something. 6. Trace the shape of.
Use 'outline' in a sentence:
1. Draw the basic outlines in black felt-tip pen ( see fig. 4).
2. The methods outlined in this book are only suggestions.
3. They outlined their aims with disarming frankness.
4. After that, I'll outline the new company's structures and who is going where.
5. The mayor outlined his plan to clean up the town's image.
6. What about the other outline I sent in, about the proposed increase in tuition fees?
7. It was a beautiful sight outlined above the starry sky.
8. Draw an outline before you fill in the details.
9. Trees soften the outline of the house.
10. He outlined the limits of British power.
11. She drew the figures in outline.
12. Draw your child's outline with a heavy black marker.
13. You could see her hackles rising as she heard him outline his plan.
14. The code would outline the steps that should be taken to prevent a financial crisis.
15. If you are using an outline or notes, highlight ideas or phrases you should stress in your speech with a different coloured pen or something.
16. The outline of the trees sharpened as it grew lighter.
17. The squiggly outline at the lower left is the section of myocardial cells, which makes the heart beat.
18. Now that you have developed a topic into a tentative thesis, you can assemble your notes and begin to flesh out whatever outline you have made.
19. This is a brief outline of the events.
20. They were used to outline figures to show boundaries just like you might use solid lines in a pencil drawing.
21. It may be briefly summarized in the following outline.
22. Outline the program's plot for their children first.
23. Write an outline before you start writing the article, or you would easily write something that is beside the point.
24. With a good shovel, you can cut an outline of the garden in the grass. Your child can then pull the sod away and set it aside it for composting.
25. Its outline roughly forms an equilateral triangle.
26. In effect, Parsons presents us with a beguilingly simple outline of social evolution.
27. Here we outline some of the sometimes conflicting forces moulding the debate.
28. Far away the outline of the island is just discernible.
29. The market likes the broad outline but is reserving judgment on the fine detail.
30. The outline of the ship becomes more distinct.
31. He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
32. Your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, but do not permit it to railroad you.
33. Hopefully the speakers will let you have an outline of the topic a day or two in advance.
34. These documents provided a broad outline of the Society's development.
35. Following is an outline of the survey findings.
36. Now the leadership wants to look forward, and to outline a strategy for the rest of the century.
37. The proposals were given in outline by the Secretary of State.
38. Simon's book provides a succinct outline of artificial intelligence and its application to robotics.
39. If the shape is irregular, the shadow should follow its outline.
40. Organize all the information you have collected according to your outline.
41. I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position.
42. At last we could see the dim outline of an island.
43. You should draw up a plan or outline for the essay.
44. Each picture is shown in colour on one page and as a bold outline on the opposite page.
45. They saw the huge building outlined against the sky.
46. In the darkness they could see the vague outline of a church.
47. The book describes in outline the main findings of the research.
48. With a lip pencil, outline lips and fill them in.
49. What's the outline of the presentation?
50. By the light of the moon I could just make out shapes and outlines.
51. The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.
