noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the contours on a map (= the lines on a map showing the height of mountains and valleys )
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Contours on the map are given in feet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
line
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Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations.
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Each contour line connects the points on the surface of the building where the wind pressure is equal.
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Quite apart from the major wetlands, every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable.
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Topographic maps represent differences in elevation or height by means of contour lines and help relate ancient structures to the surrounding landscape.
lines
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Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations.
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Topographic maps represent differences in elevation or height by means of contour lines and help relate ancient structures to the surrounding landscape.
map
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The sections produced can then be transformed into a contour map of the subsurface features.
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Tasks based on road, town, London tube and contour maps proved to have a wide range of success rates.
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Repeated scans of the surface produced this contour map of the silicon.
■ VERB
follow
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The characteristic feature of Brindley's canals was their winding routes, following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A topographical map shows the contours of the earth's surface.
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An architect planned for a house that follows the contours of the hillside.
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The seat is adjustable to fit the contours of your back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He spreads such figures, with great care for the contour which is echoed by supple and delicate inner detail.
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I used clay - I put my palm in clay to get the natural contours of my hand.
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Man things were regular and patterned, and cut across the contours of the country and the flow of things.
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Maybe it is these that enable them to feel within their bodies the contours of the earth's magnetic forces.
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Science in this sense came to stand as a meta-discourse, framed by the broader contours of the conjuncture.
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Starting from my head, she smoothed the linen against my contours, asking for blessings from the protective spirits.
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Stripped to the waist, the contours of their musculature were faintly graven with decades-old surgical scars.
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The letters curved and dipped with the contours of his chest.