different between outline vs figuration

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

Late Middle English figuracion, from Middle French figuration, from Latin fig?r? (“to form”). Equivalent to figurate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

figuration (countable and uncountable, plural figurations)

1. The act of giving figure or determinate form.
2. The form of something, its outline or boundaries.
3. Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
4. Mixture of concords and discords.
5. (art) The representation of an object through visual forms.
6. (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.

Derived terms

• figurational

Anagrams

• autofiring