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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
line drawing
noun
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▪ Golf has replaced hockey as her sport, and she still enjoys acting and painting and especially line drawing.
WordNet
line drawing

n. a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: delineation, depiction, limning]

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Line drawing

Line drawing may mean:

  • Line art, a style of two-dimensional art featuring only two, unshaded, contrasting colors
  • A line drawing algorithm, in computer graphics

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Usage examples of "line drawing".

He would leave the light on in her living room, he thought, and hold her across the bed, and see nothing but the curve of the strip of light running from her waist to her ankle, a single line drawing the whole shape of her long, slim body in the darkness, then he would pull her head into the light, to see her face, to see it falling back, unresisting, her hair over his arm.

Riane saw a line drawing, filling up an entire page, precise as an architectural blueprint, of the horrific beast she had seen in Otherwhere.

Richard mentally flattened out that cylindrical form, much like unrolling a scroll, in order to see it in his mind as a more customary line drawing.