CONTOUR as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
   Synonym(s)
   • configuration (what does configuration mean?)
   • conformation (what does conformation mean?)
   • form (what does form mean?)
   • shape (what does shape mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke
   Hypernyms(s) contour is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • spatial property (what does spatial property mean?)
   • spatiality (what does spatiality mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • sharpness (what does sharpness mean?)
   • keenness (what does keenness mean?)
   • dullness (what does dullness mean?)
   • dulness (what does dulness mean?)
   • bluntness (what does bluntness mean?)
   • topography (what does topography mean?)
   • lobularity (what does lobularity mean?)
   • concavity (what does concavity mean?)
   • concaveness (what does concaveness mean?)
   • convexity (what does convexity mean?)
   • convexness (what does convexness mean?)
   • angularity (what does angularity mean?)
   • narrowing (what does narrowing mean?)
   • curvature (what does curvature mean?)
   • curve (what does curve mean?)
   • roundness (what does roundness mean?)
   • straightness (what does straightness mean?)
   • crookedness (what does crookedness mean?)
   • stratification (what does stratification mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • straight (what does straight mean?)
   • crooked (what does crooked mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • contour (what does contour mean?)
   • shape (what does shape mean?)
   • form (what does form mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
   Usage Example(s)
   • the contours of the melody
   • it defines a major contour of this administration
   Hypernyms(s) contour is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • feature (what does feature mean?)
   • characteristic (what does characteristic mean?)
3. Meaning
   • a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
   Synonym(s)
   • contour line (what does contour line mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) contour is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • isometric line (what does isometric line mean?)
   • isometric (what does isometric mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • thalweg (what does thalweg mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • contour (what does contour mean?)

CONTOUR as VERB

1. Meaning
   • form the contours of
   Hypernyms(s) contour is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • delineate (what does delineate mean?)
   • limn (what does limn mean?)
   • outline (what does outline mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • streamline (what does streamline mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • contour (what does contour mean?)
   • contour line (what does contour line mean?)
   • shape (what does shape mean?)
   • form (what does form mean?)
   • configuration (what does configuration mean?)
   • contour (what does contour mean?)
   • conformation (what does conformation mean?)