Synonyms of the word delineate


DELINEATEBE - DEFINE - DELIMIT - DELIMITATE - DELINEATED - DEPICT - DEPICTED - DESCRIBE - DESCRIBED - DIAGRAMMATIC - DIAGRAMMATICAL - DRAW - LIMN - LINE - MARK - OUTLINE - PICTURED - PORTRAYED - REPRESENTED - SHOW - SPECIFY - TRACE

delineate

  • v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
  • v. To depict, represent with pictures.
  • v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
  • v. To outline or mark out.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

define

  • v. To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
  • v. (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).
  • v. To express the essential nature of something.
  • v. To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
  • v. To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.
  • v. To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
  • v. (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
  • n. (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.

delimit

  • v. (transitive) To mark or fix the limits of.
  • v. (transitive) To demarcate.

delimitate

  • v. To delimit, especially in the computing sense.

delineated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of delineate.

depict

  • v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
  • adj. (obsolete) Depicted.

depicted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of depict.

describe

  • v. (transitive) To represent in words.
  • v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  • v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
  • v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

described

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of describe.

diagrammatic

  • adj. In the form of a diagram.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.

diagrammatical

  • adj. diagrammatic.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

limn

  • v. (transitive) To draw or paint; delineate.
  • v. (transitive) To describe.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

mark

  • n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  • n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
  • n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
  • n. (heading) Attention.
  • v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
  • v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
  • v. To take note of.
  • v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
  • v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
  • v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
  • v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
  • v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
  • v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
  • v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
  • n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
  • n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
  • n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
  • n. A mark coin.
  • v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

outline

  • n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
  • n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
  • n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
  • n. A general description of some subject.
  • n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
  • n. A preliminary plan for a project.
  • n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
  • v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
  • v. (transitive) To summarize something.

pictured

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of picture.
  • adj. furnished with pictures.
  • adj. represented by a picture.

portrayed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of portray.

represented

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of represent.

show

  • v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  • v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  • v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  • v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  • n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  • n. (countable) A demonstration.
  • n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
  • n. (countable) A movie.
  • n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
  • n. A project or presentation.
  • n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  • n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  • n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

specify

  • v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
  • v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

trace

  • n. An act of tracing.
  • n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
  • n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
  • n. A very small amount.
  • n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
  • n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
  • n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
  • n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
  • n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
  • n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
  • n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
  • n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
  • v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
  • v. To follow the history of.
  • v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
  • v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

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