(n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
(n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.
(n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.
(n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
(v. t.) To draw the outline of.
(v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.
Example Sentences:
(1) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(2) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
(3) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
(4) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(5) Factors which have influenced the number of samples received are outlined.
(6) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(7) Besides, it showed a high number of plasma cells secreting IgA in the stroma of the 2 tumours, the ultrastructural study performed on the epithelioma also demonstrated some similarities between epitheliomatous cells and epithelial cells of cystadenolymphomas (outlined epidermoid or glandular differentiation, numerous mitochondria).
(8) Impediments to the necessary growth of this subspecialty for the needs of clinical practice and research are outlined and criteria for certification are reviewed.
(9) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
(10) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
(11) A theory which includes the individual's activity as an essential mediator between the individual and the context is outlined.
(12) The purpose of this paper is to outline procedures that will facilitate the integration of microcomputers into the clinical milieu by (a) identifying the reasons why and how these devices are used improperly; (b) proposing ways to correct these problems; (c) providing recommendations concerning the acquisition of major microcomputer hardware, software, and adaptations; and (d) providing an annotated list of resources for further information.
(13) It led to general outline of the structural organisation of the alpha-subunit hydrophilic regions exposed from membrane.
(14) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
(15) Its association with other systemic abnormalities is reviewed; the distinctions among distichiasis, trichiasis, entropion, and epiblepharon are outlined; and methods of treatment for distichiasis are described.
(16) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
(17) Emphasizing this trend, we present our current approaches to managing retinoblastoma based on our experience with 324 patients, outlining our indications and pointing out a number of misconceptions about the role of enucleation, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and radiotherapy in treating this condition.
(18) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(19) Complex Physical Therapy (CPT) is discussed and its principles outlined.
(20) The protocol for a radioimmunoassay is outlined which permits the measurement of AFP in several fetal-maternal physiological compartments throughout gestation.
Outlive
Definition:
(v. t.) To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(2) It is not only a healthcare issue but it also threatens someone's finances, the impact of which can often outlive the diagnosis itself.
(3) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(4) We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.” Less easy to dismiss are those who insist the movement has outlived its usefulness.
(5) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(6) Before Christmas, the prime minister said the RET may have outlived its usefulness and become a burden on business and on Thursday repeated his concerns in response to the announcement that Queensland government-owned Stanwell was mothballing its gas-fired Swanbank E power station in October.
(7) The PKK has been listed as a terrorist organisation in Germany since 1993, but many criticise the ban as a diplomatic gift to the Turkish government on behalf of the former chancellor Helmut Kohl that has outlived its relevance .
(8) The patients outliving myocardial infarction reached 69%; those surviving angor inestable, reached 79%, and the survivors of the no-coronary group, 92.5%.
(9) The system that sets public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has outlived its usefulness and should be scrapped, peers said today.
(10) The truth appears to be that Page 3 has outlived its editorial purpose, which is how it should be.
(11) For example, in an early work on the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, La voix et le phénomène (Speech And Phenomena, 1967), Derrida argued that the philosophical emphasis on the "living present" concealed a dependence on the idea of death: I cannot use a sign - a word or a sentence, say - without implying that it pre-exists me and will outlive me.
(12) In strain combinations involving multiple non-H-2 disparities, neonatal skin grafts may survive significantly longer than adult grafts of similar genotype on normal adult hosts, and repeatedly outlive grafts of adult origin on immunosuppressed recipients.
(13) He says that many Scots think the union has outlived its purpose but that does not, I think, justify the breakup of this small island.
(14) It's also a rebuke to postwar and often postmodern French philosophers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Foucault with whom he argued and all of whom he has outlived.
(15) He will never fill multiplexes, but his work will doubtless outlive most of the films that do – even now, while his career as a film-maker is only just beginning.
(16) So, since the Fed is the only official body trying to do anything, it's worth examining whether QE has outlived its usefulness.
(17) Some argue that in the age of Facebook and easyJet, the twin town idea has simply outlived its purpose.
(18) The ILC Compendium is "a snapshot of the older woman's life in the UK today", showing that many women outlive men, and suffer more poverty, illness, violence and abuse, and it calls for young women to campaign and make sure we don't become second-class citizens.
(19) Adaptation, once gained, outlives an interruption of registration of several weeks and is more marked in healthy subjects than in other groups.
(20) Unlike the shoe polish, tea towels and cheap china plates it stocks, Woolies has outlived its usefulness and many of its products can be bought more cheaply elsewhere.