in outline? معانی

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While the process of research use described in the findings is not markedly different in outline from prescriptive models of the process available ...

Purdy's account of the publication history — much less detailed but not substantially different in outline from mine — first appeared in his ...

the second item is entirely different in outline from the first one as shown by ...

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* in outline:

--> in broad terms

"the plan has been agreed in outline".

 

--> as a shape with an edge but without any details:

The mountain was visible only in outline as the light faded.

آیا معنایش این است: «به طور کلی»؟ یا اینکه معانی دیگری هم دارد؟

آیا در جملات فوق که با (different from) آمده است معنای دیگری دارد؟ مثلاً «در شکل و نما»؟

Answer 1

بطور کلی یا بطور عمومی ترجمه ی خوبی ست.

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