Crossword-Solution: DELINEATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Delineation | n. | A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “DELINEATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Vivid verbal description | 1 answer |
| HYPSOGRAPHY, subject of | 1 answer |
| presentment | 2 answers |
| portraiture | 9 answers |
| Graph | 9 answers |
| case-history | 13 answers |
| AMBIT | 18 answers |
| CONTOUR ___ | 22 answers |
| lineament | 28 answers |
| Diagram | 30 answers |
| __ map | 32 answers |
| Sketch | 38 answers |
| characterisation | 39 answers |
| Drawing | 42 answers |
| portrayal | 45 answers |
| Framework | 57 answers |
| Emblem | 57 answers |
| figure | 66 answers |
| Surround | 67 answers |
| Frame | 68 answers |
| Description. | 72 answers |
| Exposition | 76 answers |
| Story | 79 answers |
| Account | 79 answers |
| Design | 80 answers |
| Expose | 82 answers |
| Representation | 83 answers |
| Feature | 92 answers |
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Sentences with DELINEATION (5)
The delineation between fact and fiction is clouded because the fiction of yesterday is the fact, the news, of today.
Some of the very best drawings contained in the Transactions of the Society of Arts, from the year 1817 downwards,--especially those requiring the delineation of any unusually elaborate piece of machinery,--proceeded from the hand of Clement.
The second conception was derived from the mention in our sacred books of the "four winds." Hence came a vivid belief in their real existence, and their delineation on the maps, generally as colossal heads with distended cheeks, blowing vigorously toward Jerusalem.
The first, to use Matthew Arnold’s imagery, is Attic, the last has declined to the Corinthian; it remains a great, an amazingly great production; great in its pictorial force, its omnipresent survey, verbal eloquence, firm grasp, marshalled delineation of multitudinous and entangled matter; but it is not unique amongst martial records as “Eothen” is unique amongst books of travel: it is through “Eothen” that its author has soared into a classic, and bids fair to hold his place.
But they all showed a rather remarkable aptitude for delineation which further fortified Bowen's comparisons between these people and the extinct Cro-Magnons whose ancient art is still preserved in the caverns of Niaux and Le Portel.
Quotes with DELINEATION (3)
For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest for a rightful beginning, an absolute point of departure, a principal responsibility. The problematic of writing is opened by putting into question the value of the arkhe. What I will propose here will not be elaborated simply as a philosophical discourse, operating according to principles, postulates, axioms, or definitions, and…
Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1992–2015).