A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
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Examples for "outline "
Examples for "outline "
1 The new industrial plan is due to outline investments, including new models.
2 The outline of an agreement on debt is certainly easy to imagine.
3 Then he viewed the scheme in general outline and in remote detail.
4 Macron's government produced the broad outline of its pension plan in July.
5 He thought he saw the outline of a shape beginning to form.
1 It was still distant, abstract : battles at sea thousands of miles off.
2 Part of the problem is that microformats are thus far very abstract .
3 Freedom -rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract , yes?'
4 ITF's interest in Ireland's rescue services therefore is not an abstract thing.
5 The idea of vegetation in general is too abstract to be primitive.
1 The following synopsis of what I said was published in the papers:
2 Objective: To provide a synopsis of current haemophilia care in Hong Kong.
3 The film synopsis reads, High school best friends and science prodigies C.J.
4 Able, delivered with more of a romantic story than a clinical synopsis .
5 From the synopsis of a Singapore play-justthe last scene or two:-
1 The following precis , though imperfect, will give some idea of the correspondence:
2 You may have heard of them but here is a precis .
3 In any case the precis begins with these illuminating sentences:
4 In precis , they make more mistakes if they get very cold, or very hot.
5 It is known by a variety of terms-summingup, resume, epitome, review, precis , condensation.
6 Ultimately it is irreducible to precis or paraphrase.
7 Now, sir, here is a precis of evidence, nearly complete, written out clearly by Sergeant Coombes.
8 The precis begins in a curious way.
9 Here's a quick precis , with no spoilers.
10 I just wish I knew which ones they were. Which, unfortunately, was a perfect precis of the situation.
11 Cain gives an interesting precis of how our view of one another has changed since the early 1900s.
12 Joshua had finished reading the precis .
13 However, there should also be a precis or interpretation, written for the people and designed to capture the imagination.
14 The article did not commend itself to him, save as the means of making a precis of the case.
15 The shootout was low on quality and heavy on nerves, which was a neat precis of what had gone before.
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