Outline vs. Plan — What's the Difference?

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

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.

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

An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective

A sketch done in this style.

A proposed or intended course of action

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

A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline

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

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

To draw or trace an outline of.

In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.

To display or accentuate the outline of

A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit

To give the main features or various aspects of; summarize

To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of

A line marking the boundary of an object figure.

To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend

The outer shape of an object or figure.

To draw or make a graphic representation of.

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

To make plans.

A general description of some subject.

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

A preliminary plan for a project.

A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

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

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

(fishing) A setline or trotline.

A subscription to a service.

(transitive) To draw an outline of.

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

(transitive) To summarize.

(transitive) To create a plan for.

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

(intransitive) To intend.

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

(intransitive) To make a plan.

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.

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

To draw the outline of.

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.

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.

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

The line that appears to bound an object

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

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

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

A schematic or preliminary plan

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;

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

An arrangement scheme;

Draw up an outline or sketch for something;

Scale drawing of a structure;

Trace the shape of

Have the will and intention to carry out some action;

Make plans for something;

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;