line drawings

noun

plural of line drawing
as in watercolors

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  1. portraits
  2. blueprints
  3. representations
Noun
  • Several hang in the Musée d’Orsay, including one of his portraits of the physician who treated him, Doctor Paul Gachet.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Other novelists have turned to acidic, class-conscious portraits of the underemployed—see Andrew Martin and Halle Butler.
    — Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of portraits
Noun
  • Just remember that recipes are closer to blueprints than Lego instructions.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Workers also assembled the parts in a trial run, verifying that every component matches the blueprints.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of blueprints
Noun
  • Both encode information in high-dimensional vectors, transform those representations using matrices and tensors and convert internal states into probable outputs.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • His second grid made clever work of visual representations of typefaces.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of representations
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