Usually means: Specify or describe with precise detail.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. delineate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. delineate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delineate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delineate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delineate: Vocabulary.com
  6. delineate: Wordnik
  7. delineate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delineate: Wiktionary
  9. delineate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delineate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delineate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Delineate, delineate: Dictionary.com
  13. delineate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delineate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Delineate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. delineate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. delineate: Rhymezone
  18. delineate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. delineate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. delineate: Free Dictionary
  21. delineate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. delineate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delineate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delineate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delineate: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
▸ verb:  To depict, represent with pictures.
▸ verb:  To describe or depict with words or gestures.
▸ verb:  To outline or mark out.

Similar:
draw, describe, limn, pictured, specify, delimit, outline, delimitate, define, trace, more...

Opposite:
obscure, blur, confuse, muddle, jumble

Types:
separate, distinguish, differentiate, partition, divide, more...

Phrases:
delineate lines, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     pewter,     smoke,     stone, more...
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Similar:
draw, describe, limn, pictured, specify, delimit, outline, delimitate, define, trace, more...

Opposite:
obscure, blur, confuse, muddle, jumble

Types:
separate, distinguish, differentiate, partition, divide, more...

Phrases:
delineate lines, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     pewter,     smoke,     stone, more...



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