| verb | describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of “sketch the outline of the book” |
| verb | draw up an outline or sketch for something “draft a speech” |
| verb | trace the shape of |
| adjective | showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary “hills defined against the evening sky” |
| sketch | noun | short descriptive summary (of events) |
| outline | noun | a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory |
| draft | noun | any of the various versions in the development of a written work |
| drafter | noun | a writer of a draft |
| drafting | noun | writing a first version to be filled out and polished later |
| delineative | adjective | depicted in a recognizable manner |
| delineation | noun | a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects |