outlining

Verb

outline (third-person singular simple present outlines, present participle outlining, simple past and past participle outlined)

1. (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
   • He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the...1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
2. (transitive) To summarize.
   • Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.
3. (transitive) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.

   Synonyms:

   reverse inline

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