Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To draw an outline of; to describe.

    umreißen

    обрисо́выватьobrisóvyvatʹ, обрисова́тьobrisovátʹ, оче́рчиватьočérčivatʹ

    обрисо́вуватиobrysóvuvaty, обрисува́тиobrysuváty, окре́слюватиokrésljuvaty

    draw up an outline or sketch for something

  2. (transitive)To summarize.

    Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.

    zusammenfassen

    опи́сыватьopísyvatʹ, описа́тьopisátʹ

  3. (transitive)To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.

Examples

44 sentences

  1. He gave me a brief outline of the plan.

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  2. Tom gave Mary a brief outline of his plan.

    ruТом кратко описал Мэри свой план. — odexed

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  3. I need to trace the outline.

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  4. He sketches the outline of the machine.

    deEr skizziert den Grundriss der Maschine. — Zaghawa

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  5. Here's a brief outline of my speech.

    ruВот краткий план моей речи. — sharptoothed

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to draw an outline of something:
Русский
By meaning 2
to draw an outline of something:
to summarize something:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to draw an outline of something:
to summarize something:

Origin

From out + line.

From out + line.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

outlines, outlining, outlined, outlined
Base formoutline · to outline
3rd person singularoutlines
Present participleoutlining
Past simpleoutlined
Past participleoutlined

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoutline
he, she, itoutlines

Past simpleLesson

all personsoutlined

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outlined
he, she, ithas outlined

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outline

Synonyms

6 synonyms
reverse inline
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Derivedoutlinerreoutline

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
outlawB1outletB2outlieroutliveB2outlookB2outlying

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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