Synonyms:
contour, contour_line
Meaning: a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
Synonyms:
shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation
Meaning: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
contour
Meaning: form the contours of
Usage examples
It still retained something of her contour.
What contour there was in the turn of arm and shoulder under the close-fitting purple cloth!
The deepened hue touched only the edge, following regularly the contour of the vessel; it made no advance toward the centre of the substance.
One lightning glance at the thickness of the patrolman's neck and the general contour of his rubicund countenance had translated to him the sort of man he had to deal with.
In her youth she had been beautiful, and even at eighty-two, retained the majestic height, the sculptural contour of head, the fine eyes and the Grecian nose of her girlhood.
In contour and markings it was not unlike the noblest of the Bengals of our own world, but as its dimensions were exaggerated to colossal proportions so too were its colorings exaggerated.
There was an absence of anything girl-like in her fine, ivory-pale face, somehow, though it was a young face and a handsome face, at whose fine lines and clear contour even a connoisseur could not have caviled.
There is no perceptible change, of course, in the contour of the rugged hills which hem us in; yet somehow it stirs the blood to reflect that quite within the recollection of all of us in Pilgrim's crew, save the Boy, that left bank was the house of bondage, and that right the land of freedom, and this river of ours the highway between.
As he threw it open, a flash of red light, streaming far into the chamber, flung his shadow with a clear outline against the quivering tapestry, and he shuddered to perceive that shadow--as he staggered awhile upon the threshold--assuming the exact position, and precisely filling up the contour, of the relentless and triumphant murderer of the Saracen Berlifitzing.