Delineate
[dɪ'lɪnɪeɪt] or [dɪ'lɪnɪet]
Definition
(a.) Delineated; portrayed.
(v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation.
(v. t.) To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Design, sketch, figure, represent by outlines.[2]. Describe, portray, depict, set forth.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Describe, figure, sketch, portray, depict, draw, represent, paint
ANT:Misrepresent, caricature, exaggerate, misportray
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Definition
v.t. to mark out with lines: to represent by a sketch or picture: to portray: to describe accurately in words.—adj. Delin′eable.—ns. Delineā′tion the act of delineating: a sketch representation or description (sometimes Delin′eament); Delin′eator.
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Examples
- How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There is a painful confusion in my brain, which refuses to delineate distinctly succeeding events. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When mankind see that the happiness of states is only to be found in that image, will they be angry with us for attempting to delineate it? Plato. The Republic.
- Or that his nature, being such as we have delineated, is akin to the highest good? Plato. The Republic.
- Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,--tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was all general approbation and smoothness; nothing delineated or distinguished. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The irregular movements given the galvanometer needle by the varying current are clearly delineated on the paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The passage to which I allude occurs in that part of her journal which delineates his character and his personal appearance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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