Border vs Outline - What's the difference?
border | outline |
The outer edge of something.
* Bentham
* Barrow
A decorative strip around the edge of something.
A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
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(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
To put a border on something.
To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
* Archbishop Tillotson
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.
* Dryden
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.
(lb) To draw an outline of something.
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*: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.
In transitive terms the difference between border and outline
is that border is to lie on, or adjacent to a border while outline is to summarize something.border
English
(wikipedia border)Noun
(en noun)- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- in the borders of death
Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
Derived terms
* borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacingVerb
(en verb)- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Derived terms
* border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----outline
English
Noun
(en noun)- Painters, by their outlines , colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
- the outline of a speech
See also
* silhouetteVerb
(outlin)citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}