different between outline vs conspectus

English

Etymology

out +? line

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?tla?n/

Noun

outline (plural outlines)

1. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
2. The outer shape of an object or figure.
3. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Painters, by their outlines, colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.

4. A general description of some subject.
5. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
6. A preliminary plan for a project.

7. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
8. (fishing) A setline or trotline.

Translations

See also

• silhouette

Verb

outline (third-person singular simple present outlines, present participle outlining, simple past and past participle outlined)

1. (transitive) To draw an outline of.
2. (transitive) To summarize.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

Translations

Anagrams

• elution, line out, line-out, lineout

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nspectus (“survey”).

Noun

conspectus (plural conspectuses)

1. A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.

Further reading

• conspectus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conspectus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conspectus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of c?nspici? (“perceive, observe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?spek.tus/, [kõ??s?p?kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?spek.tus/, [k?n?sp?kt?us]

Participle

c?nspectus (feminine c?nspecta, neuter c?nspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. watched, looked at, having been watched
2. caught sight of, noticed, having been caught sight of
3. (by extension) visible
4. (figuratively) distinguished, noteworthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

• Galician: Cospeito (place name)

Noun

c?nspectus m (genitive c?nspect?s); fourth declension

1. A sight
2. The ability to see; power of sight
3. presence, proximity
4. (figuratively) survey, consideration

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• Russian: ????????? (konspékt)

References

• conspectus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conspectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• conspectus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016