line drawing
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3.6
- noun
- /laɪn ˈdrɔɪŋ/
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dibujo a línea
- First, human line drawings, made under our controlled conditions, are quite consistent with each other.
- a simple line drawing
- black line drawings
- a white line drawing
It's this beautiful geometric line drawing of me and Ryan, and we removed all the words from the cover.
- It's this beautiful geometric line drawing of me and Ryan, and we removed all the words from the cover.
- Like take out the bags under the eyes, which I think you can get away with with just an A sort of a line drawing.
- And the logic was humans can interpret a line drawing and and yes, and this will save us a computation.
Examples
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First, participants viewed line drawings of headless or faceless figures, rather than photographs of real people.
Academic text (1996) -
This is vector art, where everything is a line drawing, basically.
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So the line drawing part is almost done.
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This set of two hand line drawings are from Target.
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"I thought back to my father's manual and the line drawings of body parts.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's this beautiful geometric line drawing of me and Ryan, and we removed all the words from the cover.
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The goal of our work is to characterize the mathematical properties of line drawings made by human artists.
Academic text (2012) -
From sketches and line drawings to painting and posters, illustrations help students visualize ideas and concepts.
Academic text (2012) -
Sarah flipped fast through her sketch pad: line drawings of her husband's bearded face, of the tomcat's fluid poses.
Fiction book (2000) -
Before starting a painting, he made a line drawing of the view he had chosen.
Synonyms
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1.0
A picture made by hand with a pen or pencil
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4.0
A picture or other image that shows what something looked like
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6.7
A drawing that shows the outlines or shapes of things
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5.8
The way an artist uses lines to make a drawing look clear or lively
A simple drawing that shows the outer lines of an object like a face or building
Antonyms
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a drawing made of lines' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'line' (a long, narrow mark) with 'drawing' (a picture made by hand). This compound follows a regular compositional pattern (a drawing characterized by lines) that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun line drawing comes from the simple idea of a line, a thin mark, and a drawing, so it means a picture made only of lines that shows the 'outlines' of objects without color or shading. That's why we call images that keep shape and detail using only lines 'line drawings'.