different between adumbrate vs contour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adumbr?tus (“represented in outline”), from adumbr?re (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd?m?b?e?t/

Verb

adumbrate (third-person singular simple present adumbrates, present participle adumbrating, simple past and past participle adumbrated)

1. To foreshadow vaguely.
2. To give a vague outline.
   • 1996, John M. Cooper, "Introduction" in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, p. xxii:

     Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

3. To obscure or overshadow.

Derived terms

• adumbrant
• adumbration
• adumbrative

Related terms

• See umbra#Derived_terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.dum?bra?.te/, [äd??m?b?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.dum?bra.te/, [?d?um?b???t??]

Verb

adumbr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adumbr?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French contour, from contourner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nt??(?)/, /-t??(?)/
• Homophone: kontor

Noun

contour (plural contours)

1. An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.

2. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.

   Synonym: contour line

3. (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.

   Hyponyms: diphthong, contour tone, affricate

Translations

Verb

contour (third-person singular simple present contours, present participle contouring, simple past and past participle contoured)

1. (transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
2. (transitive) To mark with contour lines.
3. (intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.

Anagrams

• cornuto, countor, crouton, croûton

French

Etymology

Deverbal of contourner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.tu?/

Noun

contour m (plural contours)

1. contour

Spanish

Noun

contour m (plural contours)

1. contour