Delineate

Definitions: Delineate

Delineate

Adjective

1. Represented accurately or precisely".

Verb

1. Delineate the form or outline of: "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object".

2. Determine the essential quality of.

3. Trace the shape of.

4. Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand".

5. Describe in vivid detail.

Date "delineate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonyms: Delineate

Synonyms: delineated (adj), represented (adj), define (v), delimit (v), delimitate (v), describe (v), draw (v), limn (v), line (v), outline (v), specify (v), trace (v). (additional references)

Antonym: undelineated (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Representation	Verb: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; Noun: hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Delineate

English words defined with "delineate": Defigure, define, Deline, Delineating, Depaint ♦ Enchase ♦ map, map out ♦ Roughdraw. (references)

Specialty definitions using "delineate": Alaska Native village ♦ calibration marker ♦ director, product assurance, DIRECTOR, QUALITY ASSURANCE ♦ histologis, HISTOPATHOLOGIST ♦ Memorandum of agreement, Myosin Subfragments ♦ Rules of Behavior, RULES OF CONDUCT ♦ seismic survey, setback lines ♦ WRITER, TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS. (references)

Etymologies containing "delineate": Iconism. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	An attempt to delineate the characteristic structure of classical (Biblical) Hebrew poetry (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A perspective view of the City Hall in New York taken from Wall Street / C. Tiebout, delineate & sculpsit.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		We have been careful to narrowly delineate when and how, in our judgment, ECT should be administered. (references)
		Delineate the role of latent HSV activation in the pathogenesis of mucositis due to radiation therapy and chemotherapy of solid tumors. (references)
		Longitudinal studies to further delineate responses of the ear to noise over time in different groups of people with varying levels of exposure. (references)
Civil Liberties	South Africa	The act's regulations, which delineate actual government procedures and responsibilities, became effective in 2000. The act stipulates that no person shall be expelled, extradited, or returned to any other country if he or she face persecution due to race, religion, or political affiliation, or when "his or her life, physical safety, or freedom would be threatened." The act also stipulates that designated refugees lose their status if they voluntarily return to their country of origin, take citizenship of another country, or if the circumstances that caused their flight from the country of origin change. (references)
Economic History	United Arab Emirates	The border with Oman also remains officially unsettled, but the two governments agreed to delineate the border in May 1999. (references)
	Bulgaria	Reform within this branch was initially slow, and in 1994, the National Assembly passed the Judicial Powers Act to further delineate the role of the judiciary. (references)
Human Rights	Peru	The Constitution, Criminal Code, and antiterrorist statutes delineate the arrest and detention process. (references)
	Guatemala	In addition, the Government's failure to delineate clearly responsibility for investigating crimes to either the PNC or the Public Ministry led to continued infighting and competition between these organizations, as well as the duplication of investigative resources. (references)
	Swaziland	Although the Government initially indicated that it might not renew the Chief Justice's contract and force him to retire, he reportedly will remain until the new constitution, which is expected to delineate the terms and conditions for his office, is drafted and adopted. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Delineate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Delineate" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.89%	40	54,274
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.89%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	2.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "delineate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, offer, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), përvijoj (adumbrate), përshkruaj (characterize, depict, depicture, describe, draw, escribe, image, paint, picture, portray, render), përcaktoj caqet. (various references)

Arabic		‏صور بدقة, ‏صف (alignment, bank, classroom, course, cue, grade, lane, line, lineup, queue, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), ‏خطط (adumbrate, blueprint, chart, delimit, design, draught, limn, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, protract, scheme, set out, streak, stripe, trace), ‏رسم الخطوط. (various references)

Bulgarian		скицирам (adumbrate, line, outline, plan, plot, rough-hew, sketch, trace, vignette), чертая (construct, describe, draw, figure, line, plan, plot, protract), очертавам (adumbrate, contour, define, line, mark out, outline, sketch, trace out), обрисувам (depict, outline, picture, portray). (various references)

Chinese		定出轮�" (Delineated, Delineating). (various references)

Czech		definovat (define), popsat (cover, cover with writing, depict, describe, enter up, overwrite), nastínit (adumbrate, outline), naèrtnout (block out, design, draft, draught, draw up, outline, touch off, trace). (various references)

Danish		karbid udskilles paa austenitkorngraenserne og goer dem synlige (carbides precipitate in the austenite grain boundaries and delineate them). (various references)

Dutch		omtrekken (draw), omlýnen (draw), aftekenen (design, draw, lay out, mark, mark out, scribe, trace). (various references)

Esperanto		konturi (draw). (various references)

Farsi		معین کردن (Allocate, Allot, Define, Designate, Govern, Limit, Settle, Specify), مشخص کردن (Characterize, Denote, Specify), ترسیم نمودن . (various references)

French		décrire (demonstrate, depict, describe, to describe), tracer (delimit). (various references)

German		darstellen (constitute, depict, describe, display, enact, impersonate, incarnate, introduce, offer, paint, personate, picture, play, play out, plot, portray, pose, present, produce, render, represent, show, tender, to depict, to personate, to represent), umreißen (adumbrate, destroy, knock over, outline, pull over, quash, sketch in, sketch out, tear down, to outline), skizzieren (adumbrate, draft, drafts, outline, plan, sketch, to outline, trace), beschreiben (characterize, depict, describe, draw, picture, qualify, satirize, to describe, write, write on). (various references)

Greek		σκιαγραφώ (adumbrate, block in, outline, silhouette, sketch). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"תוות (adumbrate, sketch). (various references)

Hungarian		vázol (adumbrate, drawn, drew, scheme, sketch, to adumbrate, to crayon, to delineate, to draft, to draw, to scheme, to sketch). (various references)

Indonesian		merancangkan. (various references)

Italian		delineare (line, loom, outline, take shape). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		描写 (delineation, depict vs, depiction, describe, description). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		えがき� す (to delineate, to draw, to express, to imagine). (various references)

Korean		묘사하십시�" (Depict). (various references)

Pig Latin		elineateday

Portuguese		desenhar (chalk, chart, describe, design, draw, drew, picture), delinear (adumbrate, block, design, map, outline, plan, trace), traçar (construct, describe, design, draft, draught, draw a conclusion, dribble, map, plane, scribe, trace), retratar (depict, depicture, limner, paint, picture, portray, reflect, represent, retract), esboçar (design, draft, draught, line up, model, outline, plan, project, skeletonize, sketch). (various references)

Romanian		descrie în mod amãnunţit, zugrãvi (decorate, depict, describe, paint, picture, portray, whitewash, write), schiţa (adumbrate, block in, block out, chalk out, chart, design, draw, figure, outline, pencil, plan, rough draft, sketch, take a sketch of), contura (appear, contour, define, outline, skeletonize, sketch). (various references)

Russian		описывать (circumscribe, declare, describe, escribe, limn). (various references)

Scottish		dealbh (contrive, devise, figure, form, image, picture, shape), strìoch (a streak, line, streak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opisati (depict, depicture, describe, picture, write up), ocrtati (adumbrate, define, outline, sketch). (various references)

Spanish		delinear (feature, trace). (various references)

Swedish		skissera (block out, draft, outline, rough out, sketch, trace). (various references)

Turkish		tasvir etmek (depict, describe, figure, portray), taslağını çizmek (adumbrate, draft, draught, draw, draw out, outline, rough in, rough out, roughcast, sketch), betimlemek (depict, describe, picture, represent), çizerek açıklamak. (various references)

Ukranian		окреслювати (circumscribe, describe, outline), накреслювати (describe, protract), зображати (character, characterize, depict, describe, feature, figure, represent), змальовувати (depict, describe, paint). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	deformata, deformati, deformes. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	trasser. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "delineate": delineated, delineates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Delineate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delieate, delinate, delineat, delineato, delinegate, delineiate, deliniate, delinkage, deliweate, dilineate, Selinunte. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "delineate" (pronounced duli"nēā't)
4	-n ē ā' t	herniate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, recreate, renegotiate, renunciate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: dateline, detainee, entailed, lineated.
	-2 letters: aliened, alienee, delaine, latened, lineate.
	-3 letters: aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, anteed, delate, delete, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dilate, elated, endite, entail, ideate, lateen, leaden, leaned, nailed, needle, tailed, tenail, teniae, tineal.
	-4 letters: ailed, alien, aline, anele, anile, anted, dealt, delta, diene, eaten, edile, elain, eland, elate, elide, elint, elite, enate, entia, ideal, inlet, laden, lated, laten, leant, liane, lined, naled, nidal, teind, telae, telia, tenia, tidal, tilde, tiled, tinea, tined.
	-5 letters: adit, aide, alee, alit, anil, ante, anti, dale, date, deal, dean, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dene, deni, dent, dial, diel, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, eide, elan, etna, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, land, lane, late, lati, lead, lean, leet, lend, lent, lied, lien, line, lint, lite, nail, neat, need, nide, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, teal, teed, teel, teen, tela, tele, tend, tide, tied, tile, tine.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: delineated, delineates.
	+2 letters: deferential, delineative, eternalized, interdealer, interleaved.
	+3 letters: cantilevered, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, delicatessen, detailedness, determinable, expediential, externalised, externalized, interdealers, interlayered, interpleaded, interpleader, interrelated, radioelement, sedimentable.
	+4 letters: credentialled, decelerations, decentralized, decentralizes, deferentially, delicatessens, determinately, essentialized, interpellated, interpleaders, nondeliberate, radioelements.
	+5 letters: creditableness, deliberateness, detailednesses, differentiable, encephalitides, indelicateness, indeterminable, intermediately, interrelatedly, radiotelephone, uncredentialed, undeterminable.
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