delineare
= verbo trans . tracciare le linee essenziali - i contorni di qualcosa <
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Ebbene: sposatemi voi! Il vecchio rimase un pezzo come stordito, a quella proposta a bruciapelo; poi sulle labbra cominciò a delinearglisi quel certo sorrisetto ambiguo dell'altra volta: - Eh...(Pirandello - Novelle per un anno)<>
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delineamento
= il delineare - l'essere delineato <>
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delineato
= part . pass . di delinear <>
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profilare
= delineare i contorni - verbo transitivo - intransitivo pronominale: profilarsi
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profilarsi
= delinearsi , verbo intransitivo pronominale
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Enthusiastic as we are in the noble cause to which we have devotedourselves, we should have felt a sensation of pride which we cannotexpress, and a consciousness of having done something to meritimmortality of which we are now deprived, could we have laid thefaintest outline on these addresses before our ardent readers.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It is very possible that at some earlier period of his career, Mr.Weller's profile might have presented a bold and determined outline.<>
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A faint, grey light was beginning to outline its radiation uponthe darkness, like some dismal and discoloured sunrise; but what lightthere was in the hall came from a single, shaded lamp, also of anantiquated sort, that stood on a bracket in a corner.<>
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Anyhow, as the conversation proceeded,Boyle felt more and more that the figure seated on the cushions and darkagainst the twilight had the exact outline of a huge image of Buddha.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Outside, the last edges of the sunset still clung to the corners of thegreen square; but inside, a lamp had already been kindled; and in themingling of the two lights the coloured globe glowed like some monstrousjewel, and the fantastic outlines of the fiery fishes seemed to give it,indeed, something of the mystery of a talisman, like strange shapes seenby a seer in the crystal of doom.<>
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Abbottadvancing towards them; even in the outline there was a certainagitation.<>
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On their right was the tent ofthe Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller bycrystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced,in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving anynumber of arms like octopods.<>
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Inside that, in the verycentre, rose the basin of a dark-green fountain, or raised pond, inwhich water-lilies floated and goldfish flashed to and fro; and highabove these, its outline dark against the dying light, was a great greenimage.<>
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But in that mere dark outline, in the dim twilight, some of them couldsee instantly that it was the shape of no Christian thing.<>
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He was robed inpeacock green and wore on his bald head a high cap of uncommon outline:a head-dress none of them had ever seen before; but it looked ratherEgyptian than Indian.<>
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"The other looked at him inquiringly; and the priest's finger was pointedto the Gothic outline of the great Abbey.<>
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