delineate
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Delineate the difference between pop and rock for me.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
"Stranger! that e'er thy hospitable roof Ulysses graced, confirm by faithful proof; Delineate to my view my warlike lord, His form, his habit, and his train record."
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
Great College Street, Westminster, continues, with great success, to Delineate the Character of Individuals from their Handwriting.
From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
Delineate in your own way, as you are led on your own Patmos, the picture of our land redeemed.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
Delineate, de-lin′e-āt, v.t. to mark out with lines: to represent by a sketch or picture: to portray: to describe accurately in words.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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