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Outline vs Listing - What's the difference?

outline | listing |

As nouns the difference between outline and listing

is that outline is a line marking the boundary of an object figure while listing is the action of the verb to list.

As verbs the difference between outline and listing

is that outline is to draw an outline of something while listing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective listing is

asking, as a price of real estate.

outline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • Painters, by their outlines , colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
  • A general description of some subject.
  • A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
  • A preliminary plan for a project.
    • the outline of a speech
  • (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.

    • See also

    * silhouette

    Verb

    (outlin)
  • (lb) To draw an outline of something.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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.}}
  • (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.

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    listing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • asking, as a price of real estate
    • What is this house's listing price?

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to list.
  • An entry in a list or directory.
    • Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.
  • (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
    • Print me a listing of the latest version.
  • A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing .
    • Please pass me the second listing for the two story house, from that stack.

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