Definition of delineation

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Delineation (n.) A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.

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Lineation :: Lineation (n.) Delineation; a line or lines.
Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..
Delineate :: Delineate (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..
Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram..
Delineation :: Delineation (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures..
Astrophotography :: Astrophotography (n.) The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars..
Stereography :: Stereographically (adv.) In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn..
Blottesque :: Blottesque (a.) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
Design :: Design (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan..
Optigraph :: Optigraph (a.) A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper..
Projection :: Projection (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each..
Description :: Description (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Delineation :: Delineation (n.) A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.
Predelineation :: Predelineation (n.) Previous delineation.
Portrayal :: Portrayal (n.) The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
Perigraph :: Perigraph (n.) A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.
Outline :: Outline (n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.
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