Silhouette

Definition: Silhouette

Silhouette

Noun

1. An outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow).

2. A drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color.

Verb

1. Project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette.

2. Represent by a silhouette.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "silhouette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Outline

Noun: outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line.

Painting

Portrait; (representation); whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.

Crosswords: Silhouette

French (figure, outline, shape, silhouette), German (outline, silhouette), Italian (silhouette).

Silhouette, of a perfect frame, (My First Love; performing artist: Avant)

I see your silhouette (Shake your Bon-Bon; performing artist: Ricky Martin)

Die Silhouette des Teufels (1917)

The Rider of Silhouette (1915)

Silhouette (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The 6'2, 200 Lb, Challenge (Harlequin Silhouette Romance, No 1292) (reference)

• General Motors Chevrolet Lumina Apv, Oldmobile Silhouette and Pontiac Trans Sport: Automotive Repair Manual (Haynes Auto Repair Manuals Series) (reference)

• Marigold Beach (First Love from Silhouette, No 183) (reference)

• Mum for Hire (Thorndike Large Print Silhouette Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Sweet Adeline (Harlequin Silhouette Romance, No 693) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lasalle Silhouette (reference)

• Silhouette Special Editions (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Saga: Silhouette (reference)

• Silhouette (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Love's Silhouette (reference)

• Silhouette (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Silhouette MP3/CD Player (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mirro Silhouette Cookset (7-pc.) (reference)

• Mirro Silhouette Stainless Steel Cookset (8-pc.) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the ... Credit: NASA.

A silhouette of Diamondhead as seen from Waikiki. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fox Island and a silhouette of the Olympic Range as seen from Gig Harbor at sunset. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fireworks silhouette the Color Guard of the United States Armed Forces.

Silhouette of farmstead. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Silhouette of hills against the evening sky. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Flag silhouette at Fort Meade parade grounds. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Insignia adopted in 1966. The crest features a silhouette of the ship and a map of the Pacific Ocean, her theater of operations for the previous decade. Credit: NAVY.

USS Lexington (CV-2) during the action, seen from USS Yorktown (CV-5), 8 May 1942. Large number of planes on deck and low sun indicate that the photo was taken early in the morning, prior to launching the strike against the Japanese carrier force. Yorktown has several SBDs and F4Fs on deck with engines running, apparently preparing to take off. Lexington, whose silhouette has been altered by the earlier removal of her 8-inch gun turrets, has planes parked fore and aft, and may be respotting her deck in preparation for launching aircraft. Credit: NAVY.

En silhouette. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Cardiac silhouette size on chest radiographs is usually normal. (references)

Mitral stenosis can also cause interstitial edema with a normal-sized cardiac silhouette. (references)

Trade

Sweden

In 1998, the European Court of Justice ruled in what has become known as the Silhouette Case. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "silhouette": prone silhouette target ♦ stand out in silhouette against. Additional references.

Beginning with "silhouette": silhouette-principle.

Containing "silhouette": half-silhouette target.

Albanian

siluetë (figure), nxjerr në pah (foil, heighten, highlight, point out, push forward). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, spectrum, spook, wraith), ‏رسم صورة ظلية, ‏رسم بياني (diagram, graph, outline, schema, scheme). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силует (cutout, figuration, form, line, skyline), очертавам се, очертание (adumbration, conformation, contour, cutout, delineation, form, line, lineament, outline, shape), откроявам се (be outlined, relieve, show up, stand out), профил (contour, cross section, cutout, profile, section, shape, side, side face, side view), изобразявам като силует. (various references)

Chinese 

剪影 (sketch). (various references)

Czech

silueta (profile, skyline), obrys (contour, outline). (various references)

Danish

silhouet. (various references)

Dutch

silhouet (outline), schaduwbeeld (outline, shadow). (various references)

Esperanto

silueto (outline). (various references)

Faeroese

skuggamynd (outline), umhvarv (contour, outline), fjallagrein (outline). (various references)

Farsi 

محیطمرءی (Contour), نیمرخ هرچیزی برنگ سیاه یابرنگ یکدست , نیمرخ (Profile, Sideview), نقاشی سیاه یکدست , بصورت نیمرخ سیاه نشاندادن . (various references)

Finnish

varjokuva (shadow). (various references)

French

silhouette. (various references)

German

Schattenbild (shadow picture, shadowgraph), Silhouette (outline). (various references)

Greek 

σκιγράφω, σκιαγραφώ (adumbrate, block in, delineate, outline, sketch), σκιαγραφικώσ, σκιαγραφία (outline, sketch), σιλουέτα (figure), περίγραμμα (ambit, circumscription, contour, outline, template), διαγράφω (black out, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, delineate, erase, rub out, score out, scratch out, strike off, wipe out, write off), δεικνύω (indicate, shew, show). (various references)

Hebrew 

צללית. (various references)

Hungarian

sziluett, árnykép (shadow), körvonal (circle, configuration, contour, line, outline, profile), árnyalak. (various references)

Italian

silhouette, sagoma (outline, profile, shape, target, template), contorno (boundary, contour, edge, fixing, garnish, outline, side dish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

黒影 (dark shadow), 映し絵 (film picture), 影画 , 影像　, 影像 , 影法師 (shadow figure), シリンダー錠 (cylinder lock, silhouetter, silk, silk screen, silky). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うつしえ (child's copying pictures, film picture, magic-lantern picture, shadowgraph), かげぼうし (shadow figure), かげえ (shadow picture), こくえい (dark shadow, state management), シルエット , えいぞう (building, construction, image, reflection). (various references)

Korean 

실루엣. (various references)

Manx

scaa-chaslys, gruaie (brow, cheek, face, facet, grim countenance, profile, temple). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilhouettesay.(various references)

Portuguese

silhueta (dide view, profile). (various references)

Romanian

siluetã (figure, form, line, slimness), profil (cut out, kerf, profile, section, shape, side face, structure, type). (various references)

Russian 

силуэт. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

silueta, senka (shade, shadow, tint, umbra, umbrage), napraviti siluetu. (various references)

Spanish

siluetear, silueta (outline, profile, shape), contorno (contour, figuration, outline, profile, skyline). (various references)

Swedish

silhuett (outline, skyline). (various references)

Thai

โครงร่าง (rib), วาดภาพโครงร่างสีดำ, ภาพเงา. (various references)

Turkish

siluetini yapmak, siluet (phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow), taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, draught, drawing, outline, plan, rough, roughcast, schema, skeleton, sketch, study, tracing, visual), karaltı, hayal meyal görüntü. (various references)

Ukrainian

силует, зображувати у вигляді силуету. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hình bóng, bóng (lustrous, polished, shade, shadow, shiny). (various references)

adumbrabat. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "silhouette": silhouetted, silhouettes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Silhouette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shilouette, silgouette, silhouet, silhouett, silhoutte, silhuette, sillhouet, sillouette, silouette, silouhette, slhouette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: eoliths, etoiles, holiest, hostile, lithest, litotes, loutish, outhits, outlets, outlies, sheltie, shtetel, shuttle, teleost, thistle, toilets.

-4 letters: elites, elutes, eolith, etoile, helios, helots, holies, holist, hostel, hotels, housel, hustle, isohel, lethes, listee, lithos, lottes, louies, lutist, outhit, outlet, outlie, outsee, outset, outsit, setout, settle, shtetl, sleuth, solute, suttee, theist, thiols, tholes, tilths.

+1 letter: silhouetted, silhouettes.

+5 letters: epitheliomatous, heterosexuality, nucleosynthetic.