drawing vs silhouette

silhouette vs drawing

drawing and silhouette both are nouns.

drawing is not a verb while silhouette is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drawing	Yes	No	No	No
silhouette	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, silhouette is a hyponym of drawing; that is, silhouette is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drawing:

drawing: a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
silhouette: a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color

Other hyponyms of drawing include charcoal, delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing, diagram, mechanical drawing, pen-and-ink, architectural plan, plan, rendering, doodle, scrabble, scribble, silverpoint, sketch, study, stick figure, trace, tracing.

drawing (noun)	silhouette (noun)
the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams	a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source	an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

drawing (verb)	silhouette (verb)
	represent by a silhouette
	project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette

Difference between drawing and silhouette

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