See Also: pyromancy(medicine)
pyromancy(dictionary)
outline(dictionary)
outline form(medicine)
outline 1, noun(dictionary)
outline 2, verb(dictionary)

outline 1, noun (oh) and pyromancy (iou)


outline 1, noun (oh)



[U and C] the main ideas or facts about something, without the details
::a research proposal outline
outline of
::an outline of world history
broad/rough/General outline
::a broad outline of the committee's plans
in outline
::A Debt reduction scheme was agreed in outline
(=people agreed on its main points)
::.
[U and C] a line around the edge of something which shows its shape
outline of
::The outlines of animals were cut into the rock.
::an outline map of Europe
in outline
::figures drawn in outline
[C] a plan for a piece of Writing in which each new idea or fact is separately written down
::Always write an outline for your essays.

pyromancy (iou)



pyromancy noun. Now rare. LME.
[Old French piromance, pyromancie from late Latin pyromantia from Greek puromanteia: see PYRO-, -MANCY.]
Divination by signs derived from fire.