Define vs Silhouette - What's the difference?
define | silhouette | Synonyms |
To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
* Sir (Isaac Newton)
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, title= (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.3:
To express the essential nature of something.
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, volume=101, issue=3, page=178, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.
To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
(computing, programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
* 1996 , James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
* 1999 , Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
English eponyms
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As verbs the difference between define and silhouette
is that define is to determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly while silhouette is to represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.As nouns the difference between define and silhouette
is that define is a kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs while silhouette is an illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.define
English
(Definition)Verb
(defin)- Ringsvery distinct and well defined .
Lee S. Langston
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define .
Crinkly Curves, passage=Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Derived terms
* definable * definerNoun
(en noun)- From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines , preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
- Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
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* *Anagrams
* ----silhouette
English
(wikipedia silhouette)Noun
(en noun)- I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.
