streamlined

Examples

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• The new sports car has a streamlined design that enhances its speed and fuel efficiency.

• By reducing their profile, fish often have streamlined shapes.

• Her vacuum suit was far more compact and streamlined than mine.

  Fiction book (1996)

• It is most often found at the front of a streamlined body.

  Academic text (2003)

• Plus, dangling wires can sully an otherwise streamlined look.

  Blog text (5)

• The appropriately named Comet was a streamlined machine with a bullet-like nose and four de Havilland jet engines buried in its swept-back wings.

  Academic text (2003)

• As in modern cetaceans, basilosaurids and dorudontids have a streamlined form, short neck, forelimbs shaped like flippers, and strongly reduced hind limbs.

  Academic text (2001)

• But they quivered when I picked them up, and now I really saw the albacore for the first time—sleek, powerful, streamlined, some weighing more than forty pounds, with pectoral fins that swept back almost to their tails.

  Fiction book (1991)

• It is crucial for aeroplanes to have streamlined bodies to reduce air resistance during flight.

• The architect created a streamlined building shape to improve airflow and energy efficiency.

Synonyms

S

sleek

vsstreamlined

26 3.7

Shaped smoothly to move quickly through air or water

is the broader technical description for smooth movement through air and water

A

aerodynamic

vsstreamlined

15 5.8

Shaped to move easily through air

covers smooth movement through air and water, not only air

Antonyms

B

bulky

35 2.3

Large and taking up a lot of space, like a big coat or suitcase

C

clumsy

12 2.2

Difficult to hold or carry because of large, awkward shape

How Streamlined

aerodynamic

15 5.8

streamlined

2 4.5

blunt

109 1.0

boxy

5 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology