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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/

動詞

delineate (third-person singular simple present delineates, present participle delineating, simple past and past participle delineated)

1. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

     Bellmark delineated the space and began to dig. After clearing to about a foot deep he paused.

2. To depict, represent with pictures.
3. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
4. (figurative) To outline or mark out.

同意語

• (to mark the limits or boundaries): mark out, demark, demarcate, delimit

派生語

形容詞

delineate (comparative more delineate, superlative most delineate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participle) Delineated, sketched out.
   • 1619, John Bainbridge, An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following:

     That forme which […] is delineate in the planispheare

2. (as a participial adjective) Sketched out, portrayed, described, defined.
   • 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     ſtill do I ſee in Him delineate his mother's viſage.

Further reading

• “delineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “delineate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.