different between silhouette vs anatomy

English

Alternative forms

• silhouet

Etymology

Borrowed from French silhouette, from the name of Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized) Basque, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, from zulo (“hole, cave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.l??w?t/, /?s?.l??w?t/, /?s?.lu??w?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

silhouette (plural silhouettes)

1. 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. [mid 19th c.]

   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.

Translations

Verb

silhouette (third-person singular simple present silhouettes, present participle silhouetting, simple past and past participle silhouetted)

1. To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. [late 19th c.]
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):

     Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

Further reading

• silhouette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Étienne de Silhouette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Silhouette, after Étienne de Silhouette, a French politician, from Basque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.lw?t/, /si.lu.?t/

Noun

silhouette f (plural silhouettes)

1. silhouette

Verb

silhouette

1. inflection of silhouetter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “silhouette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *???????? (*anatomía), from ??????? (anatom?, “dissection”), from ??? (aná, “up”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- +? -tomy), literally “cut up”. Doublet of ottomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??næt?mi/

Noun

anatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)

1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

   Synonym: dissection

2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

   Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.

3. (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

   Synonym: analysis

5. (colloquial) The form of an individual.

6. (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
7. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

8. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Derived terms

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See also

• phytotomy
• zootomy