different between outline vs cutline

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

cut +? line

Noun

cutline (plural cutlines)

1. (journalism, broadcasting) In production, a hypothetical line that separates items that will be executed and publicized, versus items that will be cut.
2. (journalism, broadcasting) A caption under a photograph, or more narrowly just the explanatory text block under a photograph, excluding the title.
3. (software) In software testing, a hypothetical line that separates tests that will be performed from tests that may not be performed due to lack of time.
4. (surveying, travel) A linear cleared area through undeveloped land.

   If you stop and get out, you will see a cutline for line-of-sight surveying.

Quotations

• Karen Crouse (June 16, 2007) , “Injured Mickelson’s Chances of Making Cut Were Fat or Slim”, in New York Times?^[1]

  But the United States Open cutline?

See also

• make the cut

Anagrams

• linecut, tunicle