亚洲网紅露点

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lineament

[ lin-ee-uh-muhnt ]

noun

  1. Often lineaments. a feature or detail of a face, body, or figure, considered with respect to its outline or contour:

    His fine lineaments made him the very image of his father.

  2. Usually lineaments. distinguishing features; distinctive characteristics:

    the lineaments of sincere repentance.

  3. Geology. a linear topographic feature of regional extent that is believed to reflect underlying crustal structure.


lineament

/ 藢l瑟n瑟蓹藞m蓻nt蓹l; 藞l瑟n瑟蓹m蓹nt /

noun

  1. a facial outline or feature
  2. a distinctive characteristic or feature
  3. geology any long natural feature on the surface of the earth, such as a fault, esp as revealed by aerial photography
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • lineamental, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 濒颈苍路别路补路尘别苍路迟补濒 [lin-ee-a-, men, -tl], adjective
  • 濒颈苍顎卐路补路尘别苍路迟补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lineament1

First recorded in 1450鈥1500; late Middle English, from Latin 濒墨苍别腻尘别苍迟耻尘 鈥渁 stroke, line (made with a pen, chalk, etc.)鈥; plural, 鈥渇eatures, drawings,鈥 equivalent to 濒墨苍别腻(谤别) 鈥渢o reduce to a straight line, draw or trace lines,鈥 (derivative of 濒墨苍别补; line 1 ) + -mentum -ment
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lineament1

C15: from Latin: line, from 濒墨苍别腻谤别 to draw a line
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鈥淎 number of faults and lineaments have been mapped in the range, with no known earthquakes on any of them,鈥 says Hubbard.

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I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs: and yet, as I gazed on them, I seemed intimate with every lineament.

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The characters have been flecked with a few human lineaments.

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For the best science fiction and fantasy to use the supernatural to illuminate the lineaments of ordinary oppression, it has to know where those invisible lines are in the first place.

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After the kids are dropped at school, I take a circuitous route back home, to trace the lineaments of the past in the bricks and pavements of this familiar acre of London.

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