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outline
English
Etymology
out +? line
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?tla?n/
Noun
outline (plural outlines)
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- 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.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- A general description of some subject.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- (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)
- (transitive) To draw an outline of.
- (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
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scantling
English
Etymology
Alteration of scantillon +? -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?skantl??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skæntl??/
Noun
scantling (plural scantlings)
- (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
- (archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:
- For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Honor and Reputation
- Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Reducing them to narrow scantlings.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:
- A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
- (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- (obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
- (obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- scantlings
Adjective
scantling (comparative more scantling, superlative most scantling)
- Not plentiful; small; scanty.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
Anagrams
- cantlings
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