n. 1 profile, silhouette, contour, periphery, boundary, footprint This outline is of the desk area occupied by the keyboard and monitor 2 précis, synopsis, résumé, summary, digest, abstract, conspectus, survey, overview, run-down, recapitulation, review, (thumbnail) sketch, skeleton, (overall) plan, layout, framework, draft, scenario O'Brien presented an outline of what his company planned to do after the take-over
v. 3 trace, draft, sketch, rough out, profile, block (out), plan (out), lay out, define, delineate None of the divers was particularly enthusiastic about the procedure outlined for bringing up the wreckage