as in outline
a line that traces the outer limits of an object or surface
cartoonists often try to give their characters recognizable silhouettes
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as in to trace
to draw or make apparent the outline of
in the photograph the majestic mountain is strikingly silhouetted against the setting sun
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Recent Examples of silhouette
Air Mail, 31 May 2025
The neutral density filter remains, and while the outside appears to have been redesigned, with slightly different buttons, the basic silhouette is the same.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 31 May 2025
Mecca Pryor, Essence, 18 Apr. 2025
Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
Top trends: Business bags, larger-sized bags to fit a computer, which link with the office-business trend, novelty suiting, new oversize and powerful volumes, as well as with the mannish derby shoes silhouettes.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The designer’s resort line, known for breezy silhouettes and refined neutrals, makes its final stop with a full takeover of Shelter Island’s beach and Chez Marie restaurant.
—Air Mail, 31 May 2025
The neutral density filter remains, and while the outside appears to have been redesigned, with slightly different buttons, the basic silhouette is the same.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 31 May 2025
Verb
Taking inspiration from three of the most popular Ray-Ban silhouettes the Mega Wayfarer, Mega Clubmaster and Mega Balorama the differentiator is the nearly opaque black lenses, gold hardware and custom AWGE logo representing Rocky’s label and creative collective.
—Mecca Pryor, Essence, 18 Apr. 2025
Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
Top trends: Business bags, larger-sized bags to fit a computer, which link with the office-business trend, novelty suiting, new oversize and powerful volumes, as well as with the mannish derby shoes silhouettes.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silhouette
Noun
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In 2019, then-Senate Banking Chair Mike Crapo, an Idaho Republican, released a three-page outline that would turn the institutions into private guarantors with a limited share of the mortgage market.—
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,
Quartz,
28 May 2025
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The outline of the initial report — a contract extension for Crow-Armstrong potentially worth around $75 million — has been characterized as inaccurate.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
Verb
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The Arizona State University research team measured more than two decades of NASA satellite observations and used land modeling to trace how groundwater tables in the Colorado River basin were dwindling.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
31 May 2025
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Many tomato problems, especially when a crop is disfigured, cracked, or infected by fungus, may be traced to irregular soil moisture.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Customarily, Marta Martino sketches foundational ideas and key influences of the shapes or design elements on which a collection will be based.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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The second exercise is to sketch out your ideal life in one year's, five years' and 10 years' time.—
Andee Tagle,
NPR,
3 June 2025
Verb
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More impressive millwork defines the passageways to the formal dining and living rooms.—
James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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This was bricolage in the mode of postmodernism, to use a term that Jencks had a leading role in propagating, defining it in multiple competing and overlapping (some would say maddening) ways.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Silhouette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silhouette. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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