Definition for Contour:

• The outline: the line which bounds the figure of any object.

Synonyms for Contour:

• n.

  •
  • globe,
  • atlas,
  • study at outline,
  • chart,
  • boundary,
  • grid,
  • coordinate.
  •
  • sector,
  • surface,
  • center,
  • side.
  •cognition (noun)
  • contour.
  •configuration (noun)
  • gestalten,
  • dis-position,
  • dis position,
  • dis positions,
  • dis-positions.
  •conformation (noun)
  • conformation.
  •construction (noun)
  • pre fab,
  • prefabrications,
  • pre-fabrication,
  • pre-fabrications,
  • putting ups,
  • erectings,
  • rearings,
  • pre fabrications,
  • pre fabrication,
  • fabricatings.
  •contour line (noun)
  • layer tint,
  • hachure,
  • level line,
  • isohypse,
  • isoheight,
  • level curve,
  • isoline.
  •curve (noun)
  • catenary,
  • Meniscuses,
  • flexure,
  • half-moon,
  • hyperbola,
  • Ogee,
  • hyperbolas,
  • curlicues,
  • sinuosity,
  • Menisci,
  • Sinuosities,
  • horseshoe,
  • incurvation,
  • ellipse,
  • Ellipses,
  • chords,
  • helix,
  • Curvation,
  • horseshoes,
  • flexures,
  • incurvature,
  • catenaries,
  • Helices,
  • curlicue,
  • cambers,
  • Helixes,
  • chord,
  • parabola,
  • Parabolas,
  • half-moons,
  • ogees,
  • halfmoon,
  • Rondure,
  • camber,
  • meniscus.
  •edge (noun)
  • Berm,
  • limb,
  • strands,
  • outskirt,
  • molding,
  • BERMS,
  • shore.
  •outline (noun)
  • frame,
  • delineation,
  • wire frame,
  • silhouette,
  • sketch,
  • tracing,
  • drawing,
  • framework,
  • plan,
  • periphery,
  • girth,
  • figure,
  • skeleton,
  • circumference,
  • perimeter,
  • representation.
  •outline, profile (noun)
  • LINEs.
  •profile (noun)
  • side views,
  • pro-file,
  • pro file,
  • pro files,
  • pro-files.
  •shape (noun)
  • meta morphosis,
  • meta-morphosis,
  • meta morphoses,
  • meta-morphoses.
  •terrain (noun)
  • pro vinces,
  • pro-vinces,
  • pro vince,
  • pro-vince.
  •topography (noun)
  • the lay land,
  • the lay of land,
  • lay land,
  • lay of land,
  • the lay the land,
  • lay the land.
  •view (noun)
  • out-looks,
  • out look,
  • range vision,
  • re presentation,
  • pro-spects,
  • re-presentations,
  • out-look,
  • re presentations,
  • pro spects,
  • pro spect,
  • field vision,
  • out looks.

• v.

  •border (verb)
  • was adjacent to,
  • de-fines,
  • sets off,
  • out-lining,
  • art adjacent to,
  • de lineated,
  • sur-rounding,
  • marks off,
  • out lined,
  • being adjacent to,
  • de-fined,
  • de-fining,
  • de fines,
  • de-lineated,
  • sur rounding,
  • sur-rounded,
  • are adjacent to,
  • wast adjacent to,
  • de lineate,
  • out-lined,
  • de fine,
  • were adjacent to,
  • out lining,
  • de fined,
  • sur rounded,
  • wert adjacent to,
  • am adjacent to,
  • is adjacent to,
  • de-lineate,
  • de fining,
  • de-fine.
  •edge (verb)
  • rim,
  • ring,
  • bound,
  • fringe,
  • trace,
  • limit.
  •outline (verb)
  • draft,
  • represent,
  • circumscribe,
  • draw.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • relief map,
  • cartography,
  • map,
  • Mercator Projection,
  • grid reference,
  • orienteering,
  • uncharted,
  • appearance,
  • hypotenuse.
  •
  • road map,
  • surveyor,
  • cusp,
  • large-scale,
  • triangulation,
  • meridian.
  •
  • navigation.
  •
  • navigate,
  • R,
  • relief.
  •
  • projection.
  •
  • plot.
  •
  • survey.
  •
  • scale.
  •
  • face.
  •
  • corner.
  •
  • point.
  •feature
  • lineament.
  •quill
  • feather.

Paraphrases for Contour:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    outlines.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    curved, template.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    curve, rim, template.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    curvature.

Contour Sentence Examples:

• Her smile was frank and sweet; her face when at rest very striking for its fine contour; and her figure was stately.

• Plainly she had but just awakened, for she was clothed in a silken nightrobe which failed to conceal the outlines of her body, the swelling contour of her bosom, the ripened fullness of her limbs.

Homophones for Contour:

• centaurea, candour, centre, commandeer, center, comandra, cinder, centaur, cosignatory, common meter, chantry, cantor, canter, commuter, cnidaria, coconut tree, commandery, commentator, cassandra, commodore, commentary, century, commander, counter, candor, commutator, candidature, condor, centare, comminatory, centaury, contrary, cometary, china tree, chanter, country, coconut water, cemetery.

Hypernym for Contour:

• n.

  • communication
    thalweg.

• v.

  • creation
    streamline.

Hyponym for Contour:

• n.

  • cognition
    characteristic, feature.
  • communication
    isometric, isometric line.

• v.

  • creation
    delineate, outline, limn.