How to pronounce“silhouette”in English
the region it's really just the local humans who haven't adapted to them they still look unfamiliar to me in their lunch when you see the
silhouette of one of these birds strutting along to me it just doesn't really harmonize with the image i have of the northern
german landscape the rangers are trying to keep down the numbers of greater ria
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Definitions of “silhouette”
An artistic depiction, often of a person's profile, in the form of an outline without any other visual details, similar to a shadow, made by cutting a piece of black paper, filling in an outline with a solid colour (usually black), etc.
“She had a feeble pencil drawing of the vicarage in Dorsetshire, and silhouettes of her father and mother, which were hung up in the lodgings wherever she went.”
A dark outline of someone or something seen against a brighter background.
“I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman.”
Often followed by against or upon: to depict (oneself or someone, or something) as a silhouette (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2.1); to project (oneself or someone, or something) upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
“We guided ourselves, by the fitful flashes of forked and sheet lightning combined, towards a ghostly point, whose deeper blackness silhouetted it against the shades.”
To appear as a silhouette.
“[T]he distant islands […] lay dark and massive across our path, their huge crowns silhouetting in clear-cut outlines against the eastern sky, […]”