Outline and See

Outline

Outline verb - To draw or make apparent the outline of.

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See and outline are semantically related. In some cases you can use "See" instead a verb "Outline".

Nearby Words: outlined, outlining

See verb - To make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes.

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Outline and see are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Outline" instead a verb "See".

Nearby Words: seen, seeing

good	good outline	good see
nice	nice outline	nice see
similar	similar outline	similar see
complete	complete outline	complete see
Other adjectives: popular, entire, real, transparent, vague.

We don't see how she died or who (if anyone) murdered her- just her outline and the splatter of her brains on the MAGI computer.

Source: Chalk Outline
Made even more impressive when we see a first person view from Jack, whose advancing age renders Nobody little more than a hazy outline in his vision.

Source: Film / My Name Is Nobody
Played straight in the Fringe episode "Of Human Action." A policeman falls to his death from the top of a multi-storey car park, and next time you see the ground, there is a chalk outline on it.

Source: Chalk Outline

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