Form vs. Outline — What's the Difference?

The shape and structure of an object

A line indicating the outer contours or boundaries of an object or figure

The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal; figure

A style of drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.

A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.

A sketch done in this style.

A mold for the setting of concrete.

A summary of a text or subject, usually presented in headings and subheadings.

The way in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself

A preliminary draft or plan, as of a project or proposal.

(Philosophy) The essential or ideal nature of something, especially as distinguished from its matter or material being.

To draw or trace an outline of.

A kind, type, or variety

To display or accentuate the outline of

(Botany) A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.

To give the main features or various aspects of; summarize

Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in verbal or musical composition

A line marking the boundary of an object figure.

A particular type or example of such arrangement

The outer shape of an object or figure.

Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom

A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.

Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom

A general description of some subject.

A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information

A preliminary plan for a project.

Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria

(film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.

A pattern of behavior or performance

(fishing) A setline or trotline.

Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training

(transitive) To draw an outline of.

A racing form.

(transitive) To summarize.

A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools

To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.

A linguistic form.

The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.

Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, discourse, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.

Chiefly British A long seat; a bench.

To draw the outline of.

The lair or resting place of a hare.

Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; to create a general framework of (a plan, system, discourse, course of thought), for which the details need to be added; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

To give form to; shape

The line that appears to bound an object

To make or fashion by shaping

A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

To develop in the mind; conceive

A schematic or preliminary plan

To arrange oneself in

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;

To organize or arrange

Draw up an outline or sketch for something;

To fashion, train, or develop by instruction, discipline, or precept

Trace the shape of

To come to have; develop or acquire

To enter into (a relationship)

To constitute or compose, especially out of separate elements

To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection

To make (a word) by derivation or composition.

To become formed or shaped

To come into being by taking form; arise

To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern

To do with shape.

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.

Characteristics not involving atomic components. en

(dated) A long bench with no back.

(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

(social) To do with structure or procedure.

An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.

(archaic) A class or rank in society.

(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).

Level of performance.

A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).

A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.

The den or home of a hare.

A window or dialogue box.

Essentials

(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

(geometry) A quantic.

A specific way of performing a movement.

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

(intransitive) To take shape.

To put together or bring into being; assemble.

To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

To provide (a hare) with a form.

To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

A shape; an image; a phantom.

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

The seat or bed of a hare.

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.

The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.

To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; - said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

To run to a form, as a hare.

The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

A perceptual structure;

Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);

Alternative names for the body of a human being;

The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;

The visual appearance of something or someone;

(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;

A printed document with spaces in which to write;

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;

A particular mode in which something is manifested;

A body of students who are taught together;

An ability to perform well;

A life-size dummy used to display clothes

A mold for setting concrete;

To compose or represent:

Create (as an entity);

Develop into a distinctive entity;

Give a shape or form to;

Make something, usually for a specific function;

Establish or impress firmly in the mind;

Give shape to;