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A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
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lineament
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
See also Line (geometry) A lineament is a linear feature in a landscape which is an expression of an underlying geological structure such as a fault . Typically a lineament will comprise a fault-aligned valley, a series of fault or fold-aligned hills, a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lineament \Lin"e*a*ment\ (l[i^]n"[-e]*[.a]*ment), n. [L. lineamentum, fr. linea line: cf. F. lin['e]ament. See 3d Line .] One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "distinctive feature of the body, outline," from Middle French lineament , from Latin lineamentum "contour, outline," literally "a line, stroke, mark," from lineare "to reduce to a straight line," from linea (see line (n.)). Figurative sense ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I recognized those haggard lineaments, those eroded temples. ▪ Imagery of the Lake District has been used to analyse the lineament pattern of the region. ▪ In tracing the lineaments of his own sensibility, he has the key to understanding ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any distinctive shape or line etc. 2 (senseid en facial)A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" [syn: quality , character ] the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and ...
Usage examples of lineament.
I have drawn Alice Darvil scrupulously from life, and I can declare that I have not exaggerated hue or lineament in the portrait.
Yet from every lineament there came a strange repelling influence, like that from a snake.
Do you know that he is so like in every lineament, look, and gesture, that, against the, clearest light of reason, I cannot in my mind separate the one from the other, and have a certain indefinable expression on my mind that they are one and the same being, or that the one was a prototype of the other.
Strictly speaking, ZUG means Pull, Tug, Draught, Procession, March, Progress, Flight, Direction, Expedition, Train, Caravan, Passage, Stroke, Touch, Line, Flourish, Trait of Character, Feature, Lineament, Chess-move, Organ-stop, Team, Whiff, Bias, Drawer, Propensity, Inhalation, Disposition: but that thing which it does NOT mean--when all its legitimate pennants have been hung on, has not been discovered yet.
Mabel thought his smile attractive, by its simple ingenuousness and the uprightness that beamed in every lineament of his honest countenance.
The scout looked earnestly into the beautiful face of Mabel, which had flushed with the ardor and novelty of her sensations, and it was not possible to mistake the intense admiration that betrayed itself in every lineament of his ingenuous countenance.
In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development.
The self-same lineaments, the same Marks of identity were there: Yet, oh, how different!
Even the unshapeliest lineaments Of wild and fleeting visions Have left a record there To testify of earth.
Where neither avarice, cunning, pride, nor care, Had stamped the seal of gray deformity On all the mingling lineaments of time.
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
Why had God seen fit to shower him with that combination of lineaments and expressiveness, charm and intensity, whose sum is beauty?
She recognizes his red hair first before anything, and after that the lineaments of his face.
It was hard to read age on her face, for she did not possess the exact lineaments of a human face but something like and yet unlike, kin to him and yet utterly different.
He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious.