Dictionary Entry
outline
outline is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
- 2noun
In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.
- 3noun
A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
To draw the outline of.
- 6transitive verb
Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.
- 7noun
a schematic or preliminary plan
- 8noun
a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- 9noun
the line that appears to bound an object
Synonyms
- 10verb
describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
"sketch the outline of the book"
"outline his ideas"
- 11verb
trace the shape of
- 12verb
draw up an outline or sketch for something
"draft a speech"
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