Definition of Outline

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Outline

The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.

To draw the outline of.

Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

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Outline Quotations

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Jacques Derrida

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Robert Anton Wilson

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Shirley Jackson

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
Piers Anthony

Outline Translations

outline in Afrikaans is skets
outline in Dutch is omlijning, omtrek
outline in French is contour, silhouette, profiler, profilons, profilez
outline in Italian is contorno, disegno
outline in Spanish is silueta, estructura, boceto, contorno, contorno
outline in Swedish is skissera, kontur

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