This is dictated by genetic factors and has no inherent function other than to lay down the preliminary outline of the circulatory system.

A parliamentary committee is soon to propose a framework for future discussions, the preliminary outline of which is circulating in Colombo.

What Sam saw in the water appeared already in the preliminary outline (p. 249), though there given to Frodo.

A preliminary outline of the contents has been publicly posted.

But the proposal needs fixing, too; it is so vague or ambiguous about so many of its prescriptions for change that it might best be considered a preliminary outline.

Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it.

It contains the preliminary outline of the second law of thermodynamics.

With both sides committed, a preliminary outline of the show was written in 2002.

Donovan stared at the preliminary outline of his field report with weary eyes.

The preliminary outline was the immediate precursor of a first full narrative - the manuscript described above (p. 9), placed with The Lost Road.