different between outline vs formation

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 Middle English formacioun, formation, borrowed from Old French formacion, from Latin f?rm?ti?, from f?rm? (“form”, verb); see form as verb.Morphologically form +? -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??.?me?.??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?(?).?me?.??n/
• Hyphenation: for?ma?tion

Noun

formation (countable and uncountable, plural formations)

1. The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Some cloud formation was confirmed and rainfall was observed over some islands.

2. Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
3. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
4. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
5. (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
6. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
7. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
8. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
9. (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.

Related terms

• form

Translations

Further reading

• “form?ci?un, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Formation”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 464, column 1.
• formation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French formacion, borrowed from Latin f?rm?ti?, f?rm?ti?nem. Cf. also the archaic formaison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

formation f (plural formations)

1. formation, forming, development
2. education; training

3. (military) formation

Derived terms

• autoformation

Related terms

• forme

Further reading

• “formation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin formatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rma??u?n/

Noun

formation c

1. formation

Declension

References

• formation in Svensk ordbok (SO)