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say it: sil-uh-WET
silhouette is a noun and verb meaning "an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)". It is pronounced /ˌsɪləˈwɛt/ — sil-uh-WET. It carries 4 recorded senses.
project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
represent by a silhouette
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for silhouette come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.