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contour line
noun as in map line showing height
Example Sentences
Burnt oranges and limes, powder-blue backgrounds, green shadows on skin, blue contour lines.
The scenery is quietly pleasant, the hills away to the southwest exceeding, here and there, the 500 feet contour line.
Who gave the 1,000 feet contour line that arbitrary nomenclature is unknown.
The contour-line of 0, or datum level, is the coastal boundary of any land form.
It follows the 600-feet contour-line and winds 211 therefore exactly round the outline of the hill.
It ran straight along the 300-feet contour-line, and took the southern edge of a wood called Brockham Warren.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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