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silhouette - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.
- noun An outline that appears dark against a light background. synonym: outline.
- transitive verb To cause to be seen as a silhouette; outline.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, a portrait in black or some other uniform tint, sometimes varied as to the bailor other parts by lighter lines or a lightening of shade, showing the profile as cast by a candle on a sheet of paper; hence, any opaque portrait, design, or image in profile.
- noun Opaque representation or exhibition in profile; the figure made by the shadow or a shadowy outline of an object; shadow.
- To represent or exhibit in silhouette; make or bring out a shaded profile or outline view of: used chiefly or only in the past participle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
- transitive verb Recent To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An illustrated
outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be. - verb To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
- noun a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
- noun an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
- verb represent by a silhouette
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, after Étienne de Silhouette, (1709–1767), French finance minister.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Borrowing from French silhouette
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Examples
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He was dropped off in front of his driveway at what he estimated to be 12: 05 a.m. when he saw what he described as a silhouette go from the trailer court to the field near his residence, in what was an often-traveled way to the court for people who lived there.
The Albert Lea Tribune Sarah Stultz 2010
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He was dropped off in front of his driveway at what he estimated to be 12: 05 a.m. when he saw what he described as a silhouette go from the trailer court to the field near his residence, in what was an often-traveled way to the court for people who lived there.
The Albert Lea Tribune Sarah Stultz 2010
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
January 2009 2009
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Super Sally E. hooping in silhouette on the Lagoa (lagoon) in Florianopolis, Brazil.
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Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette
Related Words
synonyms (73)
Words with the same meaning
- adumbration
- black and white
- broad lines
- brouillon
- cartoon
- charcoal
- charcoal drawing
- chiaroscuro
- configuration
- contour
- crayon
- dark shade
- delineate
- delineation
- design
- diagram
- doodle
- draft
- drawing
- ebauche
- echo
- esquisse
- features
- figuration
- figure
- framework
- galbe
- gestalt
- gloom
- graph
- head
- limn
- line
- line drawing
- lineaments
- lineation
- lines
- main features
- mere shadow
- miniature
- outline
- pastel
- pen-and-ink
- pencil drawing
- penumbra
- portrait
- portraiture
- portrayal
- profile
- reflection
- reflex
- relief
- rough copy
- rough draft
- rough outline
- shade
- shadiness
- shadow
- shadows numberless
- shapes
- silver-print drawing
- sinopia
- skeleton
- sketch
- skiagram
- skiagraph
- study
- tournure
- tracing
- umbra
- umbrage
- umbrageousness
- vignette
hypernyms (6)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (22)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (3)
Forms
cross-references (1)
Cross-references
rhymes (144)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Annette
- Antoinette
- Bernadette
- Bizet
- Bret
- Brett
- Burnett
- Calumet
- Chalmette
- Chet
- Colette
- Corvette
- Deseret
- Fayette
- Georgette
- Gillette
- Henriette
- Janette
- Jeanette
- Jeannette
- Lafayette
- Lett
- Linette
- Lisette
- Louisette
- Lynette
- Marquette
- Met
- Net
- Nicolet
- Nicolette
- Odette
- Olivette
- Paulette
- Piet
- Reset
- Set
- Tagamet
- Tet
- Tibet
- Willamette
- Wynette
- Yvette
- abet
- anisette
- baguette
- barbette
- baronet
- barrette
- beget
- beset
- bet
- bett
- boulet
- bret
- brett
- brunet
- brunette
- burnette
- cabriolet
- cadet
- calumet
- cassette
- charette
- charrette
- chevrette
- choquette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- cornette
- coronet
- corvette
- cossette
- couchette
- debt
- diskette
- doucet
- duet
- et
- falconet
- fette
- flageolet
- forget
- forgette
- fret
- frett
- gazette
- georgette
- get
- intermet
- jet
- jette
- juliette
- kett
- kitchenette
- let
- lorette
- lorgnette
- luncheonette
- met
- mette
- minaret
- minette
- minuet
- net
- nett
- nyet
- octet
- offset
- pet
- piet
- pipette
- piquette
- preset
- pret
- quartet
- quintet
- regret
- reset
- ret
- rosette
- roulette
- set
- sette
- sextet
- sobriquet
- statuette
- stet
- suffragette
- surette
- sweat
- threat
- tourette
- unmet
- unset
- upset
- vedette
- vet
- vignette
- wet
- whet
- yet
- yett
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