Word Meanings - DELINEATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.

• Drawbolt
  A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
• Drawling
  of Drawl
• Engravery
  The trade or work of an engraver.
• Representable
  Capable of being represented.
• Distinguishing
  of Distinguish
• Drawbore
  A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
• Representance
  Representation; likeness.
• DRAWINGKNIFEDRAWKNIFE
  A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
• Distinguish
  Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
• Distinguishable
  Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
• Drawlatch
  A housebreaker or thief.
• Minute-jack
  A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
• Representant
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• MEANSPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• Accurate
  In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
• Distinguishableness
  The quality of being distinguishable.

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