Sketch vs. Outline — What's the Difference?

A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture

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

A short humorous play or performance, consisting typically of one scene in a revue or comedy programme

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

A comical or amusing person or thing.

A sketch done in this style.

Make a rough drawing of

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

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.

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

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

To draw or trace an outline of.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.

To display or accentuate the outline of

(Music) A brief composition, especially for the piano.

To give the main features or various aspects of; summarize

A short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.

A line marking the boundary of an object figure.

(Informal) An amusing person.

The outer shape of an object or figure.

To make a sketch of; outline.

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

To make a sketch.

A general description of some subject.

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

A statement summarizing the important points of a text.

(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

A preliminary plan for a project.

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

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

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

(fishing) A setline or trotline.

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

(transitive) To draw an outline of.

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

(transitive) To summarize.

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

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

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

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

(informal) An amusing person.

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 lookout; vigilant watch for something.

To draw the outline of.

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

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.

(category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

The line that appears to bound an object

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

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

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

A schematic or preliminary plan

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

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

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Draw up an outline or sketch for something;

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Trace the shape of

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

A brief literary description

Short descriptive summary (of events)

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Make a sketch of;

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