1. Showing clearly the outline, profile or boundary
   "the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill";
   - defined

1. Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
   "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas";
   - sketch, adumbrate
    
2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
   "outline a speech";
   - draft
    
3. Trace the shape of
   "She outlined the continent on the map";
   - delineate, limn

See also: distinct

Type of: compose, depict, describe, draw, indite [archaic], pen, write

Encyclopedia: Outlined