| 单词 | contour line |
| 例句 | They reflect the shape of the Earth’s surface, portrayed by contour lines twenty feet apart. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Each line on the map is like a contour line but, instead of marking a uniform measurement of height, it marks a uniform measurement of magnetic variation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I count contour lines and multiply by twenty. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A majority of art is initially conceived in terms of contour line. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll start with contour lines,” Mr. Powell said that first Saturday. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the maps, waterfalls are the blue lines going through brown contour lines drawn closely together, thereby indicating a steep incline or cliff. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I place a measuring lace on her face, and my hand shakes as I draw contour lines along the fabric onto the woman's nose and forehead and cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z On the map, a big part of it was covered with the contour lines that show mountains, and across these were written the words, “Thorn Mountains National Forest.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z So from this one experiment we learned the masses of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the other planets and their moons, and got contour lines into the bargain–not bad for a summer’s work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It showed a long straight stretch and the contour lines were spread far apart, which would indicate a large low or flat area where there might be a lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Better yet, in a short distance—less than two miles—the contour lines came closer and closer together and showed two hills, one on either side of the river, just after a sharp S turn. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z A single contour line was interrupted by a printed number in microscopic type. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Fitches Brook is it,” I say, pointing to a cluster of brown contour lines drawn close together which indicate a steep hill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The contour lines being close together on the map meant that the banks steepened between the hills. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Burnt oranges and limes, powder-blue backgrounds, green shadows on skin, blue contour lines. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The maps’ contour lines let you, the hiker, know how steep and strenuous a trek may be or, as a white-water canoeist and kayaker, how rapid a river’s descent. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z More to the point, both works confuse figures and interiors with broad, squiggly contour lines, carrying the latent sensuality of Bonnard and Vuillard forward into sex-obsessed Pop and Surrealism. Art In Review: ?INTERIORS?: Pierre Bonnard, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, William Copley, ?douard Vuillard 2012-01-19T23:50:04Z Mr. Wirsum’s sawtoothed contour line, which sometimes evokes traditional South American patterns, lends itself to an inside-out view of the body. Art in Review: KARL WIRSUM: ?Drawings: 1967-70? 2010-09-17T16:49:00Z It arcs along a contour line 2 feet below the typical low tide. Swinomish Tribe builds modern clam garden, reviving practice 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z A topographical map contains curved lines called contour lines. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Groundwater flows at right angles to the equipotential lines in the same way that water flowing down a slope would flow at right angles to the contour lines. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The rising contour line of the snow pile in the foreground continues into the background hill, which itself merges with the receding roof line of the tallest building. Perspective | Children at play in the midst of war “It’s using the rainwater,” he explained, “using the contour lines, using your environment and nature to grow food.” Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world The map turtles’ name is derived from shell markings that resemble the contour lines on topographic maps. Feds seek to protect map turtles in 4 Gulf states, Georgia 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z They’re bordered by swirling contour lines of clouds on the horizon. Brazil’s sugar plantations were brutal — ‘Angola Janga’ follows the slaves who fought back 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z He outlined the hills in brown contour lines, showing their steepness as the lines of elevation got closer together, finally reaching a small circle at the peak. Using GPS instead of maps is the most consequential exchange of technologies in history 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z I became fascinated by atlases, with their gorgeous multicoloured maps, their different icons for settlements of different population sizes, their snaking, undulating contour lines. Mohsin Hamid on the dangers of nostalgia: we need to imagine a brighter future 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Three square miles they hunt regularly from camp look dark on a topo map, the result of so many contour lines being tightly squished together. Stories, memories at family hunting camp 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z This shaded map of Mount Everest by Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof shows a combination of shaded relief, color, and faint contour lines to indicate depth. How Mapmakers Make Mountains Rise Off the Page Here many running routes hug hillsides in the Pennines - and end up looking like contour lines. What are the UK's top areas for running and cycling? - BBC News 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Sites below the crucial contour line are dominated by millet. The barley mow 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Like taking a rock and starting to carve it, with strata and contour lines… like a mountain range. China Hearts Zaha 2012-11-26T06:00:00Z The actual values of the estimated kernel density are indicated by contour lines and colour shades. Landscape of transcription in human cells 2012-09-05T17:22:14.337Z Then, using the contour lines as a guide, von Allmen would spend weeks using an airbrush to shade the hillsides with a fine mist of ink. How Mapmakers Make Mountains Rise Off the Page The method is less accurate than that of contour lines, but gives an indication of the trend and extent of a range or mountain system, especially upon small-scale maps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Each contour line connects points of the same elevation, and the figures upon them give the heights above sea level. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z Or we may delineate a series of contour lines, i.e. sections by planes parallel to xOy, or some other chosen plane; of course other sections may be indicated too for greater clearness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The actual values of the estimated kernel density are indicated by contour lines and colour shades. Landscape of transcription in human cells 2012-09-05T17:22:14.337Z This singular appearance becomes still more marked when they are viewed with only one eye; no stereoscopic guidance then correcting the illusion of their being contour lines. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z This happened whenever the atmosphere was in the right condition to elevate the terrestrial contour lines by refracting sun rays. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Where contour lines lie close together, they indicate steep slopes. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z The contour lines appear where tiny movements of the soundboard - less than a millionth of a metre - cause interference between the two beams. Stringed theory 2011-05-28T00:13:32Z The first contour line from the land indicates a depth of 600 feet—the outer margin of the continental shelf. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Stunted sagebrush clothed the hillsides scantily, their slopes serried by cattle trails as evenly as contour lines upon a map. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making The 500- and 1,000-foot contour lines are within a mile or so of the water along nearly the entire distance. Area Handbook for Albania To-day, owing to the filling in of the old river-bed, along the edge of the precipice at the Cataract's western end, that contour line would not be more than 2,700 feet. Niagara An Aboriginal Center of Trade By the use of a series of contour lines, the height of a great number of places can be indicated on a map by means of a small number of written symbols. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" The lateral drains are run in the line of steepest descent, which is, of course, at right angles to the general direction of the contour lines. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The most leisurely and unambitious mortal, once he finds the 500-foot contour lines slipping away behind him, acquires something of the true mountaineering itch. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making Captain Larcom proposes, and the Commission on the Ordnance Memoir recommend, that contour lines should be the skeleton of the shading. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Famous Hill 60 is shown encircled by a contour line, just below Zwarteleen. The Emma Gees In the absence of foundation walls or other definite lines, the character of the site is expressed by the contour lines that define its relief. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 The contour lines, representing points of elevation of 2, 3, 4, and 5 feet above the datum line, will cross the 50-foot lines at their intersections, only where these intersections are marked in even feet. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health A large chart has just been published, with contour lines of the various banks, to illustrate a treatise on the subject. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 An inspection of the map will show a number of depressions, some of quite large area, indicated by dotted contour lines. Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318 Down by the northerly cottonwoods two miles away we found other men with scrapers throwing up the irrigation checks along the predetermined contour lines. The Killer The entire site was then leveled, and from the data obtained contour lines were drawn with a 5-foot interval. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 The next step is to locate the contour lines of the land, or the lines of equal elevation,—also called the horizontal lines,—which serve to show the shape of the surface. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health Slice an apple into pieces ½-inch thick; where the cuts come may represent the contour lines. Military Instructors Manual By that date, as we have seen, various treaties with Germany and Portugal had definitely fixed the contour lines of the different possessions of the three countries in South Africa. The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known Who gave the 1,000 feet contour line that arbitrary nomenclature is unknown. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The contour lines represent an interval of 5 feet; the few cases in which the secondary or negative contours are used will not produce confusion, as their altitude is always given in figures. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 It stood on a rib of land between two peaks, which from the contour lines rose very steep. Greenmantle Map Distance means the horizontal distance between two contour lines on a map and indicates a certain degree of slope. Military Instructors Manual It could be outflanked only at its extreme eastern point, where the valley rises to the hundred-foot contour line. On Something The scenery is quietly pleasant, the hills away to the southwest exceeding, here and there, the 500 feet contour line. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Cliff and rock are shown grey, while glacier contour lines are blue. Ski-running The edge of the oasis of Vitor is the contour line along which the irrigating canal runs. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru This will give the number of contour lines crossing the traverse and the difference in elevation. Military Instructors Manual Alice walked along under cover of the slight landswell which then, more plainly marked than it is now, formed the contour line of hummock upon which the fort and village stood. Alice of Old Vincennes The equidistance being 30 metres, or roughly 100 feet, the dotted contour lines when height is marked some every 8 or 10 ordinary contour lines. Ski-running A comfortable slope is 5 contour lines in 1 centimetre, or a gradient of 17°. Ski-running A slope showing eight 30-metre contour lines in one centimetre works out roughly at 27°, which is a steeper slope than most people care to take straight, running over unknown country. Ski-running Taking English measurements as in Commander Merriman's scale, 16 contour lines in one inch on the map. Ski-running The gradients are clearly shown by contour lines. Ski-running The gradient of slopes is shown by the contour lines, the drop between each being 30 metres or approximately 100 feet. Ski-running The beginner will probably content himself with slopes where 10 contour lines are shown in one inch, or a gradient of about 13°. Ski-running |
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