contour
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
Types & categories
- isometric line hypernym
- thalweg hyponym
Related & opposite
- contour derivation
Sense 2 verb
form the contours of
Types & categories
- limn hypernym
- streamline hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
he could barely make out their shapes
Types & categories
- spatial property hypernym
- keenness hyponym
- bluntness hyponym
- topography hyponym
- lobularity hyponym
- concaveness hyponym
- convexity hyponym
- angularity hyponym
- narrowing hyponym
- curvature hyponym
- roundness hyponym
- straightness hyponym
- crookedness hyponym
- stratification hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 noun
a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
the contours of the melody
Types & categories
- feature hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contour |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | isometric line |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | thalweg |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | shape |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contour |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | limn |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | streamline |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | straight |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | crooked |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shape |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contour |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | spatial property |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | keenness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bluntness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | topography |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lobularity |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | concaveness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | convexity |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | angularity |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | narrowing |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | curvature |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | roundness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | straightness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | crookedness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | stratification |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | feature |