Diagnose vs Outline - What's the difference?
diagnose | outline |
(medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
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.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (lb) To summarize 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.
As verbs the difference between diagnose and outline
is that diagnose is to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis while outline is to draw an outline of something.As a noun outline is
a line marking the boundary of an object figure.diagnose
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Verb
(diagnos)Anagrams
* * ----outline
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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.}}
