'Sculpture' definitions:
Definition of 'sculpture'
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Definition of 'Sculpture'
From: GCIDE
- Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc. [1913 Webster]
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sculpture'
From: GCIDE
- Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave. [1913 Webster]
- Sculptured tortoise (Zool.), a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sculpture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract art,
- art,
- art form,
- artist,
- arts and crafts,
- arts of design,
- assemble,
- autolithograph,
- be a printmaker,
- block out,
- bronze,
- bust,
- calligraphy,
- carve,
- carving,
- cast,
- cave art,
- ceramics,
- character,
- chase,
- chisel,
- conformation,
- crease,
- create,
- creation,
- cribble,
- crosshatch,
- cut,
- decoration,
- design,
- designing,
- doll,
- dolly,
- dummy,
- efform,
- efformation,
- enchase,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- etching,
- fantoccini,
- fashion,
- fashioning,
- figuration,
- figure,
- figurehead,
- figurine,
- fine arts,
- fix,
- folk art,
- forge,
- form,
- formalize,
- formation,
- formature,
- forming,
- found,
- frame,
- furrow,
- gingerbread man,
- graphic arts,
- grave,
- groove,
- group,
- hatch,
- head,
- hew,
- incise,
- inscribe,
- insculpture,
- knead,
- knock out,
- lay figure,
- lay out,
- lick into shape,
- line,
- lithograph,
- make prints,
- man of straw,
- manikin,
- mannequin,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mark,
- mint,
- mobile,
- model,
- modeling,
- mold,
- molding,
- monument,
- morphogenesis,
- morphogeny,
- photography,
- plastic art,
- portrait bust,
- primitive art,
- print,
- puppet,
- relief,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- scarecrow,
- score,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- sculp,
- sculpt,
- set,
- shape,
- shaping,
- snowman,
- solder,
- stabile,
- stamp,
- statuary,
- statue,
- statuette,
- stipple,
- tailor,
- terra cotta,
- the arts,
- thermoform,
- tool,
- wax figure,
- waxwork,
- weld,
- wood carving,
- work