contour

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
contour line
• Hypernyms:
isometric line, isometric
• Hyponyms:
thalweg
2. any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) (Freq. 2)
- he could barely make out their shapes
• Syn:
shape, form, configuration, conformation
• Derivationally related forms:
shape (for: shape)
• Hypernyms:
spatial property, spatiality
• Hyponyms:
sharpness, keenness, dullness, bluntness, topography,
lobularity, concavity, concaveness, convexity, convexness, angularity,
angularity, curvature, curve, roundness, straightness,
crookedness, stratification
• Attrubites:
straight, crooked
3. a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- the contours of the melody
- it defines a major contour of this administration
• Hypernyms:
feature, characteristic

II - verb

form the contours of
• Hypernyms:
delineate, limn, outline
• Hyponyms:
streamline
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  shape, form, configuration, conformation, contour line