Definition of Outlining

1. Verb. (present participle of outline) ¹

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Definition of Outlining

1. outline [v] - See also: outline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlining

outlicking
outlicks
outlie
outlied
outlier
outliers
outlies
outlift
outline
outline form
outlinear
outlined
outliner
outliners
outlines
outlining (current term)
outlitigate
outlitigated
outlitigates
outlitigating
outlive
outlived
outliver
outlivers
outlives
outliving
outlook
outlooked
outlooks
outloose

Literary usage of Outlining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ohio Educational Monthly: A Journal of School and Home Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1874)
"outlining is somewhat of a science. It involves certain technicalities for which ... For this purpose I have prepared the following outline of outlining. ..."

2. Commercial Catalogue Compiling: "How to "build" a Catalogue" by Seymour W. Waterhouse (1916)
"CATALOGUE-COMPILING may be performed unassisted by preliminary outlining. Before, however, undertaking any form of construction, whether railroad ..."

3. Types of Reading Ability as Exhibited Through Tests and Laboratory by Clarence Truman Gray (1917)
"Three prose selections—one easy, one TABLE XVIII RECORD OF BR IN outlining TABLE XIX RECORD or WE IN outlining medium, and one difficult—were read as ..."

4. The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary, 1879-1914 by Alfred Francis Pribram (1920)
"Joint Memorandum signed by the Austro-Hungarian and the German Plenipotentiaries outlining the purposes of the Alliance. ..."

5. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"Sometimes I think that the outlining of debates has gone somewhat the way of a government business; it has got terribly tangled up in a maze of intricacy ..."

6. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe (1921)
"Sometimes I think that the outlining of debates has gone somewhat the way of a government business; it has got terribly tangled up in a maze of intricacy ..."

7. Psychologic Method in Teaching by William Arch McKeever (1909)
"outlining the Theme. Another important step in composition-teaching is outlining. This work should be done carefully and in the presence of the class. ..."

8. Composition for College Students by Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott (1922)
"PRESENTING THE ARGUMENT outlining for Presentation.—The brief serves its purpose when it shows the writer of arguments how valid is his reasoning. ..."

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