Usually means: Organizing main ideas and details.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. outlining: Merriam-Webster
  2. outlining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. outlining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Outlining, outlining: Wordnik
  5. outlining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. outlining: Wiktionary
  7. Outlining, outlining: Dictionary.com
  8. outlining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Outlining: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Outlining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Outlining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. outlining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. outlining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outlining: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outlining: Encyclopedia

(Note: See outline as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (outline)

noun:  A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
noun:  The outer shape of an object or figure.
noun:  A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
noun:  A general description of some subject.
noun:  A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
noun:  A preliminary plan for a project.
noun:  (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
noun:  (fishing) A setline or trotline.
verb:  (transitive) To draw an outline of.
verb:  (transitive) To summarize.
verb:  (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
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