Construction vs Outline - What's the difference?
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The process of constructing.
Anything that has been constructed.
The trade of building structures.
A building, model or some other structure.
(arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
The manner in which something is built.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
(geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
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 nouns the difference between construction and outline
is that construction is the process of constructing while outline is a line marking the boundary of an object figure.As a verb outline is
to draw an outline of something.construction
English
* ("construction" on Wikipedia) *Noun
(en noun)- Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- The engineer marvelled at his construction .
- He had worked in construction all his life.
- The office was a construction of steel and glass.
- "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
- A thing of simple construction .
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
- American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
- He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
Synonyms
* buildingAntonyms
* destructionDerived terms
* constructionism * constructionist * construction paper * construction site * construction soldier * construction unit * deconstruction * metaconstruction * misconstruction * reconstruction * under constructionExternal links
* * *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.}}