Synonyms of the word

outline

• n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
• n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
• n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
• n. A general description of some subject.
• n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
• n. A preliminary plan for a project.
• n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
• v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
• v. (transitive) To summarize something.

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

adumbrate

• v. To foreshadow vaguely.
• v. To give a vague outline.
• v. To obscure or overshadow.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

• n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
• n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
• n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

bounds

• n. plural of bound.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound.

compose

• v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
• v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
• v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
• v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
• v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
• v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

delineate

• v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
• v. To depict, represent with pictures.
• v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
• v. To outline or mark out.

depict

• v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
• adj. (obsolete) Depicted.

describe

• v. (transitive) To represent in words.
• v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
• v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

draft

• n. (possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something…
• n. (possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
• n. (possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.
• n. An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing; a preliminary sketch or outline.
• n. (nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's…
• n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
• n. Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
• n. An amount of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) that is drunk in one swallow.
• n. Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
• n. A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
• n. Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
• n. (politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
• n. (sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
• n. (rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
• n. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the…
• v. (transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
• v. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
• v. To write a law.
• v. (transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
• v. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
• v. (transitive, sports) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
• v. (intransitive) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage…
• v. To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
• v. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
• adj. (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

indite

• v. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
• v. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
• v. To dictate; to prompt.
• v. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
• v. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
• n. (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

limn

• v. (transitive) To draw or paint; delineate.
• v. (transitive) To describe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript.

lineation

• n. (geology) A linear feature in rock, often structural.
• n. (literature) The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem.

pen

• n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
• n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
• n. (baseball) The bullpen.
• v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
• n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
• n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
• n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
• n. A light pen.
• n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
• n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
• n. (poetic) A wing.
• v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
• n. A female swan.
• n. penalty.

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

precis

• n. Alternative spelling of précis.

program

• n. A set of structured activities.
• n. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
• n. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
• n. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific…
• n. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
• v. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to…
• v. (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
• v. (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

programme

• n. British spelling standard spelling of program.
• n. (Britain, dated, possibly nonstandard) Alternative spelling of program (A computer program).
• v. British spelling standard spelling of program.

schema

• n. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented…
• n. (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of…
• n. (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas…
• n. (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear,…

scheme

• n. A systematic plan of future action.
• n. A plot or secret, devious plan.
• n. An orderly combination of related parts.
• n. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
• n. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
• n. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
• n. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
• n. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
• v. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

sketch

• v. To make a brief, basic drawing.
• v. To describe briefly and with very few details.
• n. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude…
• n. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
• n. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
• n. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; eg. a short, often humorous…
• n. (informal) An amusing person.
• n. (slang, Ireland) Keeping sketch: to keep a lookout.
• n. (Britain) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase…
• n. (mathematics) A category together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones.
• adj. Sketchy, shady, questionable.

sum-up

• n. A summary.

summary

• adj. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.
• adj. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
• adj. (law) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
• n. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

synopsis

• n. A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or…
• n. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.