Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; to create a general framework of (a plan, system, discourse, course of thought), for which the details need to be added; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

In the context of software tools, "outline" means to sketch out the plan, frame, or key thoughts or ideas about a story, research article, project, etc.

An outline gives only the bounding lines of some scene or picture. A sketch fills up the outline in part, giving broad touches, by which an imperfect idea may be conveyed.

with regard to an essay or report, a brief sketch of the main parts; a written plan.

a schematic or preliminary plan

describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"

draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech"

a device for organizing writing

a good tool to use to assemble and organize the ideas and evidence that will go into your essay

a listing of brief ideas that will be in the paper

a list of ideas of what you want to include and the order they should follow

a list of ideas, which are grouped by sub-topic in a hierarchy

a list of topics, of sentences, or of questions you intend to answer in your essay

an organized list of what you plan to write about

an overview of your topic

a plan that an author may use to arrange ideas or that a reader may use to understand and remember ideas

a plan that shows the most important ideas in a piece of writing and how they are arranged

a plan to arrange your topics and subtopics in a logical order

a structure that the parts of an essay generally follow

a systematic way of organizing your ideas for your paper

a tool to assist you in organizing and writing your research paper

a valuable aid in magazine writing

a very important part in preparing to write a report, essay, or presentation

a very important tool in writing your speech because it forces you to organize, it makes the speech flow smoothly, it makes it easier to tackle the topic, it reduces the possibility of confusion, it allows for routine practice, and it reduces stress

a visual and conceptual list of your ideas and their place in the article

a way to show the shape of ideas in an essay

a writing plan

Indicate the main features of a topic or sequence of events, possibly setting them within a clear structure or framework to show how they interrelate.

Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of

A point form or list of short sentences that describe the action or major ideas in a written work.

The first step in writing a big paper. It is done to organize thoughts and ideas so your paper is clearly written.

A list of the major and minor topics included in a presentation.

a plan giving the main points, but not the details; a preliminary outline gives direction just by jotting down ideas on the topic; but this outline may be improved at any stage of the composition by classifying ideas, adding subheads to major headings, changing subheads, perhaps dropping some headings entirely during the process. return

Used for both a book proposal and the actual writing and structuring of a book, an outline is a hierarchical listing of topics that provides the writer (and the proposal reader) with an overview of the ideas in a book in the order in which they are to be presented.

A type of format for showing the relationships of major and minor ideas; an informal or formal way to organize your ideas in the planning stages of writing

The drawing done in a piecebook in preparation for doing the actual piece. Also called a sketch. Can also refer to the outline put on the wall and then filled, or the final outline done around the piece to finish it.

Asks candidates to write a brief summary of the major aspects of the issue, principle, approach or argument stated in the question. For example: Outline two reasons why the participant observer may have obtained different information from that obtained through questionnaires and interviews.

a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

a concept map, an overview of a set of ideas, an organized terse summary of key ideas and categories

a summary of the basic plot of the novel that you write before you start work on that novel

a summary of thoughts, presented as headings and subheadings, often used as a draft when you create a presentation

a summary of what you've learned

a tool that helps writers determine whether they have enough raw material (in the form of quotations from scholarly sources and/or data from original research) to construct a particular argument

A step-by-step guide, usually constructed for your own benefit, showing how you plan to write a particular manuscript. Some writers always use outlines, even for short pieces; some never do. Most writers fall in between, using outlines for long and/or difficult works, such as books.

a writer's own guide for novel or play.

written in present tense, it is a vividly-told chapter-by-chapter condensation of a full-length novel. Example: In Chapter Three, Jane begs her uncle to...

a plan or summary, which lists only the most important points

Summary of a book, usually organized chapter by chapter, in a scene by scene manner.

a writer's own guide for their play or novel.

A written summary that details how a proposed article will be constructed. Sometimes submitted with a query letter, the outline gives the editor a thorough picture of the research that has thus far been gathered, the interview subjects that will be contacted, and the angle that the writer will take. Large-circulation publications often require outlines or detailed query letters.

Draft of your document that conceptualizes the subject and scope. Summary and To-Do list for the work to come.

The skeleton or frame work of a piece FINAL OUTLINE: After fill-in and designs have been applied the outline is re-executed to define the letters.

Give the main features or the general principles of a subject, omitting minor details and emphasising structure or arrangement.

a structural skeleton of the main points of the material as they appear in chronological , rather than logical , order

Give the main features or general principles of a subject, omitting minor details, and emphasising structure an relationship. Highlight the important characteristics or reasons

An expanded synopsis of the story created by the writer. Usually just a few pages in length, it details the main plot, sub-plots and the relationships between the main characters.

a device used to structure a story or subject

a general description indicating only the main features of an article, story, book, speech or other project

a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay

The outline breaks down the major beats within the story. Like a street map without names of the street, the outline focuses on structure over character. Its main function is to establish each of the major scenes and illustrate where plot twists and reveals take place. At its core, the outline should expose, in limited detail, the story's beginning, middle, and end.

see Synopsis.

The plot structure to your story, avoiding unnecessary embellishments.

A hierarchical structure for a project that shows how some task s fit within broader group ings. [D01126] MSP98

An outline or tree structure, such as a tree view control, which displays a hierarchical list and usually allows the user to expand and collapse branches.

an organizational process that is a logical description of the important components of the literature review

an organized list of what a speech, written work, or presentation includes

a plan of what you will cover during your presentation

a visual or textual organizational plan for your paper

a written plan of the organization of a paper, including the data on which it rests

Contains the thesis statement and uses Roman numerals and Arabic letters to organize the major divisions of the researched paper in a logical way. See Creating an Outline in this manual.

An outline is usually a closed shape and represents a single passage of the cutting wire, contrary to the junction, which requires a back and forth movement. An outline is made of several segments.

The line that defines the shape of an object

A digital representation of an image (such as an alphabetic character) where solid shapes are represented by the mathematical curves approximating their outlines. Circles, ellipses, *quadratic and *cubic curves have been used in different outline representations. Outlines are nicely *scalable (and transformable in other ways), unlike *bitmap representations. *Glyph outlines in TrueType consist of a series of points, each being either "on-curve" or "off-curve". Consecutive on-curve points define a straight line. Consecutive off-curve points have an on-curve point interpolated between them by the *scan-converter. A *quadratic *Bezier curve is defined by a sequence of on-curve, off-curve, on-curve. There's an index to where each *contour ends. Contours are self-closing. See the TrueType Outlines page.

The line around the outer edge of a form to show its overall shape

the outside edge of the front and back

The tracing of the outer edge of text or a graphic image.

Line marking the outer edges of an image.

a useful tool to help accomplish this

a valuable tool to help keep you on track during a podcast