designate vs outline

designate

verb
  • To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description 

  • To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station. 

  • To call by a distinctive title; to name. 

adj
  • Designated; appointed; chosen. 

  • Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role. 

outline

verb
  • To draw an outline of. 

  • To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls. 

  • To summarize. 

noun
  • A line marking the boundary of an object figure. 

  • The outer shape of an object or figure. 

  • A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment. 

  • A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading. 

  • A general description of some subject. 

  • A preliminary plan for a project. 

  • A statement summarizing the important points of a text. 

  • A setline or trotline. 

How often have the words designate and outline occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )