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By Vichara

These words that I write are not my own, everyone has them. It’s only by listening with an open heart that they will appear. The Divine Spirit Radio Station is available to all of us, no matter who you are. There is no special cable hook-up but there is a simple agreement plan. By using love, compassion and patience the signal will be stronger and translate into any language to any part of the world.

hachure • \ha-SHUR\ • verb
: to shade with or show by short lines used for shading and denoting surfaces in relief (as in map drawing) and drawn in the direction of slope
Example Sentence:
"In the early years of the survey, hachuring was used to indicate the steepness of slopes on maps, whereas in later years, the more abbreviated and legible contour line was employed." (Robin E. Kelsey, The Art Bulletin, December 1, 2003)
Did you know?
As our example sentence indicates, hachuring is an old map drawing technique that was largely replaced in later years by the use of contour lines, or lines that connect points of similar elevation. The word "hachure," which can also be a noun referring to one of the short lines used in hachuring, comes from the French "hacher," meaning "to chop up" or "hash." This French word is also the source of the verbs "hash," which can mean "to chop (as meat and potatoes) into small pieces," among other meanings, and "hatch," meaning "to inlay with narrow bands of distinguishable material" and "to mark (as a drawing or engraving) with fine closely spaced lines."