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delineate
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  • Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory — you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye; — What!†  (source)
  • I want her madness clearly delineated so that I can trace its history and my own.†  (source)
  • Everyone in the crew had a specific job with carefully delineated responsibilities.†  (source)
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  • Our space consists of a twelve-by-twelve-foot square of stone floor delineated by painted lines.†  (source)
  • If he could only delineate the shape of what he meant, the idea that had come to him over coffee at Bentley's, Roger would take it from there.†  (source)
  • they began, imperceptibly, to grow lighter, and by one of those continuous crescendos, such as, in music, at the end of an overture, carry a single note to the extreme fortissimo, making it pass rapidly through all the intermediate stages, I saw it attain to that fixed, unalterable gold of fine days, on which the sharply cut shadows of the wrought iron of the balustrade were outlined in black like a capricious vegetation, with a fineness in the delineation of their smallest details which seemed to indicate a deliberate application, an artist's satisfaction, and with so much relief, so velvety a bloom in the restfulness of their sombre and happy mass that in truth those large and leafy shado†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Rows of blue runway lights stretched out along the valley floor behind us, delineating Og's private landing strip.†  (source)
  • You can plumb us by our language—the precise and delicate delineations for ways to administer treacherous death.†  (source)
  • A bergschrund is a deep slit that delineates a glacier's upper terminus; it forms a steep body of ice slides away from the steeper wall immediately above, leaving a gap between glacier and rock.†  (source)
  • in /Delineator/, Nov., 1917, p. 12.†  (source)
  • The ad hoc village that would serve as our home for the next six weeks sat at the head of a natural amphitheater delineated by forbidding mountain walls.†  (source)
  • The boys deposited two clumps of sweaty T-shirts in the dust at either end of the field, to delineate the goals.†  (source)
  • The auctioneer heard, without much surprise, that his was a constitution which (always with due watching) might be left to itself, so as to offer a beautiful example of a disease with all its phases seen in clear delineation, and that he probably had the rare strength of mind voluntarily to become the test of a rational procedure, and thus make the disorder of his pulmonary functions a general benefit to society.†  (source)
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