silhouette
நிழல்
definition
verb
the castle was silhouetted against the sky
cast or show (someone or something) as a dark shape and outline against a lighter background.
noun
The design of their silhouettes against the light background with full windows is reminiscent of a Japanese screen.
the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light.
translation of 'Silhouette '
நிழல் படம்,
மெனளனமான
example
Tim was just starting to cross the grounds, the dark 'silhouette' of the school outlined in the moonlight, when a gasping voice whispered in the shadows.
As she looked over towards Erik, Maria could only make out his 'silhouette' in the dim light.
In one painting enigmatically titled Hoovering, there appears to be a black 'silhouette' of a rabbit.
Participants indicate the silhouette that most closely resembles their perceived body shape, and the 'silhouette' which best represents their ideal figure.
I saw some footage of the dark 'silhouette' of New York city: just the outline in the night.
On the screen was a white 'silhouette' against a black backdrop.
‘You always manage to look beautiful,’ he complimented her, admiring her 'silhouette' in the dim light.
A 'silhouette' shadowed the light for a moment, and then a torch bracket in the wall was lit.
There was a pale light inside and a shadow stood before the light, the 'silhouette' of a child.
The path wound its way to a summit; the route being marked by a chain of cairns, on the highest of which a trident had been placed so that its 'silhouette' was visible from far below.
she paused to see its 'silhouette' against the dimming sky
Sugiura often uses the photogram as a paper negative to print a positive, in which the subject becomes a black 'silhouette' .
we can always use a 'silhouette' of Father Christmas
The new trick - the key to the work - is that Periton now underlays each black 'silhouette' with an exact replica made in a dayglo tone of pink, orange, green or red.
The dark 'silhouette' of an imposing dome, still covered with scaffolding, can be seen through a snowstorm.
It is in the painting that Sheeler arrived at the flawless balance of shapes, the alternating rhythms of light and dark forms and of 'silhouettes' and delicately modulated surfaces.
Before we were halfway across the inlet, heading straight for the town, we noticed a faint pink glow appearing low down in the sky ahead, 'silhouetting' the roofs of Mwanza, and this became brighter and rosier as we watched.
Among the items on view are paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculptures, zinc 'silhouettes' and ephemera.
Tall, leafless trees outlined the pathway, their 'silhouettes' shockingly dark against the snow.
As I was laying there on the cool grass, looking up at the starlit and crescent moon sky and dark 'silhouettes' of roses, I felt more at peace than I had in awhile.
Sheet lightening turned on and off and 'silhouetted' the palm trees for hours.
He was 'silhouetted' by the bright sky behind him and yet Pen felt as if she had just seen his face.
Even though it was dark, the moonlight 'silhouetted' the intricate stone outline of the school.
All I could see were glowing puffs in the west: gloriously orange and then mellowing to a yellow and peaking to a pink: all the time 'silhouetting' the city that stretched small in front of it.
Two figures were 'silhouetted' in the entrance, one short and stumpy, the other tall and lithe.
The fledgling flung himself in, clothes and all, and Arun wished he had brought bait and line as he saw the dark 'silhouettes' of trout duck away into the shadows.
The method is found in many periods of art from the 'silhouettes' of hands in palaeolithic cave paintings, in Egyptian art, and on Greek vases.
The ad has little black Victorian 'silhouettes' and a pineapple as its logo.
Photographers made use of the pandanus to lend striking 'silhouettes' to black and white photographs of Reef twilight.
In Bryce Canyon in Utah, for example, you would certainly want to concentrate on the shapes of the stone spires by 'silhouetting' them against an open sky or finding patterns in the repeating shapes.
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