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Schedule vs Outline - What's the difference?

schedule | outline |

As nouns the difference between schedule and outline

is that schedule is a slip of paper; a short note while outline is a line marking the boundary of an object figure.

As verbs the difference between schedule and outline

is that schedule is to create a time-schedule while outline is to draw an outline of something.

schedule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.
  • (legal) An annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
  • (senseid)A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time.
  • (US) Each of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
  • (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

    • Synonyms

    * timetable * timeline

    Verb

    (schedul)
  • To create a time-.
  • To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
    • I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.
    The next elections are scheduled on the 20th of November.

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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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