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Delineate   /dɪlˈɪniˌeɪt/   Listen
Delineate

verb
(past & past part. delineated; pres. part. delineating)
1.
Show the form or outline of.  Synonym: define.  "The camera could define the smallest object"
2.
Determine the essential quality of.  Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify.
3.
Trace the shape of.  Synonyms: limn, outline.
4.
Make a mark or lines on a surface.  Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace.  "Trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
5.
Describe in vivid detail.
adjective
1.
Represented accurately or precisely.  Synonyms: delineated, represented.





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"Delineate" Quotes from Famous Books



... was. Such a misery as none can delineate, save those who have endured it themselves, or had it confided to them by another. And happy are they to whom neither ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... this book is to tell the story of Burton's life, to delineate as vividly as possible his remarkable character—his magnetic personality, and to defend him alike from enemy and friend. In writing it my difficulties have been two. First, Burton himself was woefully inaccurate as an autobiographer, and we must also add regretfully ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... Robbers it was my object to delineate the victim of an extravagant sensibility; here I endeavor to paint the reverse; a victim of art and intrigue. But, however strongly marked in the page of history the unfortunate project of Fiesco may appear, on the stage it may prove less interesting. If it be true that sensibility alone awakens ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... of the drama are easily available. As preparatory work it will be well to make a careful study of Tennyson's dramatic monologues, both in the earlier and later periods. These throw a good deal of light upon his skill in making characters delineate themselves, and they reveal incidentally some of his methods of dramatic narrative. For this paper, however, please confine your criticism to "Queen Mary," "Harold," "Becket," "The Cup," "The Falcon," "The Promise of May," and "The Foresters." ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... the distribution of electricity producing the field. When we know the strength and direction of this resultant force, we know all the properties of the field, and we can express them numerically or delineate them graphically, Faraday (Exp. Res., Sec. 3122 et seq.) showed how the distribution of the forces in any electric field can be graphically depicted by drawing lines (which he called lines of force) whose direction at every point coincides ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various


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