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Portrait vs Outline - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between portrait and outline

is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while outline is a line marking the boundary of an object figure.

As verbs the difference between portrait and outline

is that portrait is to portray; to draw while outline is to draw an outline of something.

As an adjective portrait

is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

portrait

English

Alternative forms

* pourtraict (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
    • In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
  • (figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
    • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
  • (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

    • Related terms

    * portray

    Antonyms

    * (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profile

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To portray; to draw.
    • (Spenser)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
    • a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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    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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