| 单词 | silhouette |
| 释义 | silhouette (once / 2026 pages) nv A silhouette is dark shadow, like a silhouette of a person standing under a street lamp, or a drawing that shows only the shape of an object. A silhouette, pronounced "sil-ooh-ET," can be mysterious. After all, you can only see the shape of the person or object. So, it's fitting that the word's origin is a little mysterious, too. It was coined for Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister. One theory is that Silhouette decorated his chateau with the kind of dark outline drawings that now bear his name. WORD FAMILYsilhouette: silhouetted, silhouettes, silhouetting USAGE EXAMPLESPeople are either concealed in shadow or seen at some distance, as lonely silhouettes in a big, uncaring land. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Enrollees receive large signs emblazoned with the program’s logo - a silhouette of a saluting soldier. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) His “Arbor Series,” at Cross MacKenzie Gallery, includes views of silhouetted pines, their branches and needles often divided among multiple frames. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color Hyper drawing a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines 2n an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) Hyper lineation, outline the line that appears to bound an object 3v represent by a silhouette Hyper interpret, represent create an image or likeness of 4v project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette Hyper project project on a screen |
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