Sculpture

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.
  • n. A work of art created by sculpture.
  • n. Such works of art considered as a group.
  • n. Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.
  • v. To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure.
  • v. To represent in sculpture.
  • v. To ornament with sculpture.
  • v. To change the shape or contour of, as by erosion.
  • verb-intransitive. To make sculptures or a sculpture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
  • n. A work of art created by sculpting.
  • n. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
  • v. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
  • v. To represent something in sculpture.
  • v. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
  • n. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
  • v. To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or art of graving or carving; the art of shaping figures or other objects in the round or in relief out of or upon stone or other more or less hard substances.
  • n. Carved work; any work of sculpture, as a figure or an inscription cut in wood, stone, metal, or other solid substance.
  • n. An engraving; an illustration.
  • n. In zoöl., markings resulting from irregularity of surface or difference in texture of a part; tracery: as, the sculpture of an insect's wing-covers; the sculpture of the plates or shields of a fish; the sculpture of a turtle's shell.
  • n. See the qualifying words.
  • To represent in sculpture; carve; grave; form with the chisel or other tool on or in wood, stone, or metal.
  • To ornament or cover with sculpture or carved work; carve.
  • n.
  • n. In physical geography, the change of land-forms by natural erosive processes.
  • In physical geography, to change the forms of (the land) by natural erosive processes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. creating figures or designs in three dimensions
  • v. create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
  • n. a three-dimensional work of plastic art
  • v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work    mold    mould    form    shape    forge    carve   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    carve    engrave    insculp    insculpture    sculpt    sculp    statue   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    painting    statue    carving    architecture    decoration    vase    statuary    paint    furniture    pottery