Definitions for contour

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contour con·tour

Spelling: [kon-too r]

IPA: /ˈkɒn tʊər/

Contour is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in contour (cnoortu).

Definitions for contour

noun

1. the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
2. contour line.
3. Phonetics. a distinctive pattern of changes in pitch, stress, or tone extending across all or part of an utterance, especially across a sentence, and contributing to meaning.

adjective

1. molded or shaped to fit a particular contour or form:
2. Agriculture. of or used in a system of plowing, cultivating, sowing, etc., along the contour lines of the land in order to trap water runoff and prevent erosion.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with contour lines.
2. to make or form the contour or outline of.
3. to build (a road, railroad track, etc.) in conformity with the contour of the land.
4. to mold or shape so as to fit a certain configuration:

Origin of contour

1655-65; French, equivalent to con- con- + tour a turn (see tour), modeled on Italian contorno, derivative of contornare to outline; see

Examples for contour

A scanty growth of whisker did not conceal the contour of his jaw.

Her contour was rather square than oblong, and she was very heavy.

There were no lines, nothing lost, nothing hardened in contour.

And the contour of the cliff was plainly visible in front of it.

Sometimes the contour of the country drove him into the open or down into hollows.

“I wonder you had the heart to risk spoiling its contour,” she said resentfully.

The circumference of the crest on the 10,000-foot contour is nearly seven miles.

It was a contour map, giving the hills, sand reaches, and groves.

But the features were nonhuman, closer to saurian in contour.

If ever he praised a limb, a tint, a contour, it was solely from the artistic point of view.