delineate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1559; borrowed from Latin dēlīneātus, perfect passive participle of dēlīneo (“to sketch out, to delineate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- + līnea (“line”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]delineate (third-person singular simple present delineates, present participle delineating, simple past and past participle delineated)
- To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
- To depict, represent with pictures.
- To describe or depict with words or gestures.
- To outline or mark out.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sketch out, draw or trace an outline
depict, represent with pictures
describe or depict with words or gestures
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Adjective
[edit]delineate (comparative more delineate, superlative most delineate) (obsolete)
- (as a participle) Delineated, sketched out.
- 1619, John Bainbridge, An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following:
- That forme which […] is delineate in the planispheare
- (as a participial adjective) Sketched out, portrayed, described, defined.
- 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- ſtill do I ſee in Him delineate his mother's viſage.
Further reading
[edit]- “delineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “delineate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]delineate
- inflection of delineare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]delineate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]dēlīneāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]delineate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of delinear combined with te
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