Outline vs Outlive - What's the difference?
outline | outlive |
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.
To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII .:
* 2003 , Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:
To live through or past (a given time).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
To surpass in duration; outlast.
To live longer; continue to live.
As verbs the difference between outline and outlive
is that outline is (lb) to draw an outline of something while outlive is to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.As a noun outline
is a line marking the boundary of an object figure.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.}}
Anagrams
* *outlive
English
Verb
(outliv)- And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
- If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.
- This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived .