Relate vs Outline - What's the difference?
relate | outline |
To tell in a descriptive way.
To give an association.
To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
* 2002 , Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions (page 92)
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with, understand.
(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
* Spenser
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.
In transitive terms the difference between relate and outline
is that relate is to make a connection or correlation from one thing to another while outline is to summarize something.As a noun outline is
a line marking the boundary of an object figure.relate
English
Verb
(relat)- The use of video made it possible to relate' the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to ' relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features
- I find it difficult to relate to others because i'm extremely introverted .
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .
Synonyms
* chronicle * describe * divulge * recount * stateoutline
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.}}
