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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silhouette \Sil`hou*ette"\, n. [F.; -- so called from Etienne de Silhoutte, a French minister of finance in 1759, whise diversion it was to make such portraits on the walls of his apartments.] A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
Silhouette \Sil`hou*ette"\, v. t. To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. [Recent]
A flock of roasting vultures silhouetted on the sky.
--The Century.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1798, from French silhouette, in reference to Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), French minister of finance in 1759. Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette's petty economies to finance the Seven Years' War, which were unpopular among the nobility. But other theories are that it refers to his brief tenure in office, or the story that he decorated his chateau with such portraits.\n\nSilhouette portraits were so called simply because they came into fashion in the year (1759) in which M. de Silhouette was minister.
[A. Brachet, "An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, 1882]
\nUsed of any sort of dark outline or shadow in profile from 1843. The verb is recorded from 1876, from the noun. The family name is a Frenchified form of a Basque surname; Arnaud de Silhouette, the finance minister's father, was from Biarritz in the French Basque country; the southern Basque form of the name would be Zuloeta or Zulueta, which contains the suffix -eta "abundance of" and zulo "hole" (possibly here meaning "cave").Wiktionary
n. An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be. vb. To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
WordNet
n. an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
v. project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
represent by a silhouette
Wikipedia
Silhouette (Silhouette Chord) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appeared in New Warriors (vol. 1) #2, (August 1990), and was created by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley. Silhouette and her brother Aaron Chord ( Midnight's Fire) are mutants.
A silhouette is a view of an object or scene as a solid shape of a single color, usually black. The shape therefore depicts the outline of the object, while the interior is featureless. Silhouette may also refer to:
- Etienne de Silhouette, finance minister of Louis XV, for whom the silhouette is named
Silhouette is the fifth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1988, and reached number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 8 on the Billboard 200, and number 10 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Through April 2011, the album has sold 25 million internationally.
"Silhouette" is an instrumental by American smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, from his fifth studio album Silhouette which was released in 1988.
A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media, but was first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed.
Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term silhouette was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century. They represented a cheap but effective alternative to the portrait miniature, and skilled specialist artists could cut a high-quality bust portrait, by far the most common style, in a matter of minutes, working purely by eye. Other artists, especially from about 1790, drew an outline on paper, then painted it in, which could be equally quick.
From its original graphic meaning, the term silhouette has been extended to describe the sight or representation of a person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. Anything that appears this way, for example, a figure standing backlit in a doorway, may be described as "in silhouette". Because a silhouette emphasises the outline, the word has also been used in the fields of fashion and fitness to describe the shape of a person's body or the shape created by wearing clothing of a particular style or period.
Silhouette refers to a method of interpretation and validation of consistency within clusters of data. The technique provides a succinct graphical representation of how well each object lies within its cluster. It was first described by Peter J. Rousseeuw in 1986.
The silhouette value is a measure of how similar an object is to its own cluster (cohesion) compared to other clusters (separation). The silhouette ranges from -1 to 1, where a high value indicates that the object is well matched to its own cluster and poorly matched to neighboring clusters. If most objects have a high value, then the clustering configuration is appropriate. If many points have a low or negative value, then the clustering configuration may have too many or too few clusters.
The silhouette can be calculated with any distance metric, such as the Euclidean distance or the Manhattan distance.
Silhouette is an English manufacturer of women’s lingerie. It was founded in 1887.
Silhouette is an Austrian brand of sunglasses and eyeglasses, founded in 1964. Its headquarters and main production site are located in Linz, Austria.
Silhouette is a progressive rock band from Utrecht, the Netherlands. So far, the band has released four CD's. The music they play is influenced by band such as Genesis, Pink Floyd, Marillion, but also by more recent music. The Dutch Oor Pop Encyclopedie lists Silhouette under the category of progressive rock, other sources refer to their music as neo-progressive rock.
Silhouette's album Beyond the Seventh Wave received the iO Pages Prog Award 2014 for the best prog CD that was released in Belgium and the Netherlands in that year.
Silhouette is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax. The book was released on 11 September 2014 along with The Blood Cell and The Crawling Terror. <!--
Usage examples of "silhouette".
Beyond the agora, Achamian saw a cohort of birds wheeling above the great domes of the Temple Xothei, whose silhouette loomed above the tenements hedging the north end of the market.
His night vision had returned and he could see clearly the squat silhouette of the alkaloid factory on the horizon.
Using ink and aquarelle I can paint a lakescape of unsurpassed translucence with all the mountains of paradise reflected therein, but am unable to draw a boat or a bridge or the silhouette of human panic in the blazing windows of a villa by Plam.
This time he knew what to look for, and he saw the muzzy silhouette of the Blucher skulking under her camouflage.
Katherine called, and I looked up to see her poised on the edge of the cenote, silhouetted against the sun fifteen feet above my head.
For a while Rand sat in the common room, but he found himself eyeing every patron who came in, every stranger who could be anyoneor anythingespecially in the moment when he was first silhouetted as a cloaked black shape in the doorway.
He put his head out the door, saw rain puddles in the street beyond the open main doors and the silhouettes of Van Deef and Astoria engaged in conversation.
The other Eraser had crawled a few feet away from the cabin, a burning silhouette that had collapsed, its outlines blurred by flame.
Behind us lay Lamma Island, its fawny green deepened in silhouette by the falling sun.
Standing in darkness with her three pursuers silhouetted against the glow of gaslight in the foyer, Eleanor had a slight advantage.
But Wing Goy, still peering downward, saw a long, black silhouette creeping forward at his feet.
She had reviewed them in her mind while dressing, and saw that Silhouette knew what needed to be done, as she had said, but had lacked the gumption, as she had confessed.
Only the lamp Hake carried, silhouetting Jak and Strom, gave him the courage to keep on.
The photographs were enlarged, hand-tinted and glued to hardboard sheets to be cut out as silhouettes.
The many folds of the sheers had prevented her from seeing more than the silhouette of a hatted man.