Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who delineates or sketches, either pictorially or verbally.
- noun Specifically A tailors' pattern, made so as to expand in certain directions to correspond to the varying sizes of the garments.
- noun A surveying instrument on wheels, which, on being moved over the ground, records the distance traversed and delineates the slopes or profile of the country; a perambulator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.
- noun (Surv.) A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
delineates . - noun A
perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
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Examples
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The S&P500 Index and the S&P Depositary Receipts are trading just above their 20-month moving average, which we often refer to as a delineator between a technical bull and bear market.
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Apart from language, international football is the most visible delineator of sovereignty among eurozone countries and anything that takes down those boundaries would be viewed favourably among some European politicians.
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From the very beginning he was a brilliant delineator of the human face in chalk, crayon, pencil or pastel.
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This was undoubtedly encouraged when the Luxembourg architect Leon Krier, an avowed classicist and superb delineator, joined Stirling ' s office in 1968.
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The innovation itself is the delineator between the specific, or "sectarian" and the general, or "mainstream."
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The Magic of America, a typescript of over 1,400 pages with approximately 650 accompanying illustrations, was written and compiled by Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961), architect, designer, delineator, and artist.
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Architectural writer Reyner Banham called her the “greatest architectural delineator of her generation”.
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The Magic of America, a typescript of over 1,400 pages with approximately 650 accompanying illustrations, was written and compiled by Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961), architect, designer, delineator, and artist.
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She had cards prepared which described her as a mystical and dramatic entertainer and an aurapathic delineator—an occult study involving the aura emanations from the human body.
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The trailer was clipping off the plastic delineator posts at ground level.
Touch of Evil 2006
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