DELINEATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delineated mean? 

• DELINEATED (adjective)
  The adjective DELINEATED has 1 sense:

1. represented accurately or precisely

  Familiarity information: DELINEATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELINEATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represented accurately or precisely

Synonyms:

delineate; delineated; represented

Similar:

depicted; pictured; portrayed (represented graphically by sketch or design or lines)

described (represented in words especially with sharpness and detail)

diagrammatic; diagrammatical (shown or represented by diagrams)

Antonym:

undelineated (not represented accurately or precisely)

 Context examples 

Diatrizoate sodium blocks X-rays, thereby allowing body structures containing iodine to be delineated in contrast to those structures that do not contain iodine and allowing visualization of these areas.

(Diatrizoate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Well delineated demarcation and absence of lepidic growth are considered by some as indicators of a benign character.

(Adenoma of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

In a series of experiments, the team delineated interactions between various forms of viral GP and three of the newly isolated bNAbs.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

It was all general approbation and smoothness; nothing delineated or distinguished.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,—tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Senior author Dr Despoina Mavridou, from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial, said: This behavior is strongly reminiscent of the human 'divide and conquer' strategy, famously delineated by Niccolò Machiavelli in his book The Art of War and shows that bacteria are capable of very elaborate warfare tactics.

(Bacteria Can 'Divide and Conquer' to Vanquish Their Enemies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of attaching her; and his behaviour declared his wishes to be in that respect as earnest, as his abilities were strong.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)