Definitions for outline

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outline out·line

Spelling: [out-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈaʊtˌlaɪn/

Outline is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in outline (eilnotu).

Definitions for outline

noun

1. the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
2. a drawing or sketch restricted to line without shading or modeling of form.
3. a general sketch, account, or report, indicating only the main features, as of a book, subject, or project:
4. outlines, the essential features or main aspects of something under discussion:
5. Printing. an ornamented type in which the outside contours of each character appear in black, with the inside left white.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw the outline of, or draw in outline, as a figure or object.
2. to give an outline of; sketch the main features of:

Origin of outline

First recorded in 1655-65; out- + line¹

Examples for outline

She traced the outline of her left eyebrow, and put it right.

Sometimes he would just have an outline of the scene and we would build the dialogue out with our own words.

They have length, and breadth, and outline: have they nothing to do with depth?

Dilly bent, and traced the outline of a leaf with her finger.

When Sidney saw the outline of the stable roof, she knew that it was dawn.

“I had this outline that said I was going to be done in nine months,” Caro said.

This spurred Creative Director Adam Isgreen, who also worked on Killer Instinct, to outline of a Phantom Dust reboot—just in case.

Teardrops flow between the eyes as a flame emanates from the outline of his body.

Just hours after the announcement in Beijing, Republican senators began to outline just how much they disdained the new agreement.

Let me take one example which may mark out the outline of the contention.