basic outline

collocation in English

meaningsofbasicandoutline

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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outline
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaʊt.laɪn/us
/ˈaʊt.laɪn/
the main shape or edge of something, without ...
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(Definition ofbasicandoutlinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thebasicoutlineof the paper is as follows.
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Figure 2 shows abasicoutlineof the activities completed by all subjects.
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However, thebasicoutlineof the story is confirmed by other more reliable sources.
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Thebasicoutlineof such an argument could be quite similar to the one above.
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Excepting a few changes, this has remained thebasicoutlineof the children's pension to this day.
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Although the story is embellished and varied in myriad guises, thebasicoutlineremains essentially the same.
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That is thebasicoutlineof the scheme.
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The author provides the reader with thebasicoutlineand describes examples of those products that can be viewed as prototypical.
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I have merely touched on thebasicoutlineof that opposition.
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Thebasicoutlineremained the same, although the relationships of some of the characters were different.
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This production utilizes thebasicoutlineof the original 1892 version, with some departures.
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The story varies from production to production, though most follow thebasicoutline.
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Whether by colonists, missionaries, governments, countries, or development planners, intervention schemes follow the samebasicoutline.
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Bryophytes show considerable variation in their breeding structures and the above is abasicoutline.
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Although it is lost, the fragments that survive are enough to reconstruct abasicoutline.
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Apart from thisbasicoutline, there is little else that can be unequivocally said about consequentialism as such.
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Typically, only thebasicoutlineand surface features are preserved in compression fossils; internal anatomy is not preserved.
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Theravda orthodoxy takes the seven stages of purification as itsbasicoutlineof the path to be followed.
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Thebasicoutlineof the romance is similar in most sources, with slight variations in emotional emphasis according to the author.
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It is believed that children acquiring their language learn by listening to and mimicking the broadest and mostbasicoutlineof the language.
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Thebasicoutlineof the show was based on real life moments of lifeguard and other beach patrol work on rescues and arrests.
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Kaku writes that since scientists understand the basic laws of physics today they are able to perceive or imagine abasicoutlineof future technologies that might work.
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Generally one member has a concept andbasicoutlinefor a song, on which the other members subsequently have an input as to arrangement or lyric changes.
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He gave me thebasicoutline, which was to use the symbols of the four directions, and to use the symbols of earth, air, fire, and water.
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However, he soon decided that a direct adaptation would not work well, and began to craft a new story, using only thebasicoutlineof the novel.
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