Contours is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTOURS in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTOUR, to make the outline of
• mould into a specific shape, especially one designed to fit into something else
• shade (an area or areas of the face) with make-up, typically foundation or bronzer, in such a way as to accentuate or enhance the facial shape or structure
• mark (a map or diagram) with contour lines
• (of a road or railway) follow the outline of (a topographical feature), especially along a contour line
NOUN:
• an outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something
• an outline of a natural feature such as a hill
• a line joining points on a diagram at which some property has the same value
• a way in which something varies, especially the pitch of music or the pattern of tones in an utterance.

Words related to CONTOURS

contour9 contoured12 contouring13

Words that contain CONTOURS

recontours12

How to use CONTOURS in a sentence

• In addition to te above conventional signs, we have CONTOURS to show the elevations, depressions, slope, and shape of the ground.
• The vertical distance between the contours is 20 feet.
• From the scale of distances on the map the horizontal distance between any two contours can be found.
• One of the ways to see how contours show the shape of the ground is to pour half a bucket of water into a small depression in the ground.
• Put together the information that each of these contours gives you, and you will see how contours show the shape of the ground.
• The contours on an ordinary map seem much more complicated, but this is due only to the number of them, their length, and many turns before they finally close on themselves.
• The necks and shoulders, in spite of the softly rounded contours, simply reminded me of Sevres china.
• A clamber over the hill into the adjoining vale brought him to the fence of a highway whose contours he recognized, which settled the question of their whereabouts.
• The contours of the figure, however, even as seen by that dim light, were those of neither a boy nor a man.
• When I say that drawing is bad, I mean that I am not moved by the contours of the forms that make up the work of art.
• His face was puffed out of its natural contours, and very tender in spots to touch.
• Heavy, stolid, half-idiotic countenances can never be beautiful, however regular their lines and contours.
• The prehistoric hatchets of the Stone Age are perfect in their contours.
• The rounded cloud contours could easily be likened to the domes of snow-covered mountains.
• The contours indicate the general character of the slopes over which these irregular features are disposed.
• Meanwhile the darkness was growing thicker and thicker, and objects began to lose their contours.
• It covered, but did not hide, her beautiful contours.
• He felt the contours of her body through her clothes.
• The huge contours of the earth lay basking and drying, and not one living creature, bird or beast, was in sight.
• Its oriel windows and rough cast walls of quite jovial contours overhanging the dark cloisters beneath strike a different note to anything else in Cambridge.
• And though I have an eye for contours, no feeling of ridicule is connected in my mind with any of these.
• The streets were driven straight ahead regardless of contours.
• As for her figure, it was on a considerable scale, but its important contours had a soft and delicate charm.
• The contours of the landscape were slowly resigning themselves to the formal attitudes imposed upon them by expectation.
• And as we came to the turn of our walk nearest to the drive, I looked back towards the avenue that intervened between us and the swelling contours of Jervaise Clump.
• But those forceful lines of the billows, those sharp contours of the rock, contain everything which expresses their spirit.

Similar words containing NTOUR without suffix s and without prefix co

contour9 santour7 santours8 stentour8 contoured12 entourage10 recontour11 stentours9 contouring13 entourages11 recontours12 untouristy13 recontoured14 recontouring15 voluntourism17 voluntourist15 voluntourisms18 voluntourists16

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