Silhouette

(noun.) a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color.

(noun.) an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow).

(verb.) represent by a silhouette.

(verb.) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette.

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• It was then easy enough to obtain a fairly accurate silhouette, by either outlining the profile or cutting it out from the screen. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I saw them silhouetted against the sky-line. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He showed me the silhouettes before he pasted them on white paper and handed them to the girls. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Brilliant arc lamps, rivaling the sun in power, make night into day, and produce along our streets coruscations, silhouettes, and dancing shadows in spectacular and unceasing pageants. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Two girls were posing and he cut their silhouettes together, snipping very fast and looking at them, his head on one side. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• People of an artistic turn of mind had been in the habit of making what were called silhouettes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• An old man was cutting silhouettes under an arcade. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The girls went away looking at their silhouettes and laughing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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