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Entwurf — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  • blueprint noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
  • design noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
  • draft noun An early, unfinished version of a piece of writing.
  • outline noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.

Senses

Entwurf is used for these senses in English:

  • adumbration (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  • blueprint (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
  • design The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
  • draft A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.

adumbration — full definition

  1. noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  2. noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  3. noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
  4. noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

blueprint — full definition

  1. noun A detailed technical drawing used for building or design, originally printed white-on-blue.
  2. noun A detailed plan for achieving something, whether literal or figurative.
  3. verb To plan something out in careful detail.

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