Usually means: Summary of main ideas, structure.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word outline:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. outline: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. outline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. outline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. outline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Outline, outline: Wordnik
  7. outline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. outline: Wiktionary
  9. outline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. outline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. outline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Outline, outline: Dictionary.com
  13. outline: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. outline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Outline (hierarchical), Outline (list), Outline (note-taking software), Outline (novel), Outline (software), Outline (summary), Outline, The Outline (band), The Outline (website), The Outline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Outline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. outline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. outline: Rhymezone
  19. outline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. outline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. outline: Free Dictionary
  22. outline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. outline: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. outline: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outline: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Outline: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outline: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See outlined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
noun:  The outer shape of an object or figure.
noun:  A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
noun:  A general description of some subject.
noun:  A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
noun:  A preliminary plan for a project.
noun:  (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
noun:  (fishing) A setline or trotline.
verb:  (transitive) To draw an outline of.
verb:  (transitive) To summarize.
verb:  (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.

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