contour

1. 1.

   form the contours of

   Broaderdelineate

   Narrowerstreamline

Other forms of contour

plural

contours·

past tense

contoured·

present participle

contouring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about contour

What does contour mean?

contour means "a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contour?

contour has 2 syllables: con-tour. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnˌtʊɹ/.

What is another word for contour?

Close synonyms include contour line, shape, form, configuration, conformation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contour a common word?

contour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with contour?

3 words rhyme with contour. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.