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delineate

[dih-lin-ee-eyt] / dɪˈlɪn iˌeɪt /


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Delineate the difference between pop and rock for me.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

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

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

Then, glorious Chief! the Prophet shall himself Appear, who will instruct thee, and thy course Delineate, measuring from place to place Thy whole return athwart the fishy flood.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William




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