different between portrait vs outline

English

Alternative forms

• pourtraict (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin pr?trah?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po??t?e?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po?t?e?t/

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Antonyms

• (print mode or selection): landscape
• (print mode or selection): profile

Related terms

• portray

Translations

Verb

portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.

Adjective

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. portrait
2. (printing) portrait (format)
3. description (of a person or things)

Antonyms

• (2) paysage

Derived terms

• portrait craché
• refaire le portrait

Descendants

• ? Dutch: portret
  • Afrikaans: portret
  • ? Indonesian: potret
• ? German: Porträt

Further reading

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

Norman

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. (Jersey) portrait

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