Sculpture
['skʌlptʃə] or ['skʌlptʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) creating figures or designs in three dimensions.
(noun.) a three-dimensional work of plastic art.
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Definition
(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. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Carving, statuary, plastic art.[2]. Carved work.
v. a. [1]. Carve, chisel, cut.[2]. Engrave, grave.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Statuary, carving, plastic_work, carved_art
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Definition
n. the act of carving figures in wood stone &c.: carved-work: an engraving.—v.t. to carve: to form as a piece of sculpture.—n. Sculp′tor one who carves figures:—fem. Sculp′tress.—adj. Sculp′tūral belonging to sculpture.—adv. Sculp′tūrally.—adjs. Sculp′tūred carved engraved: (bot. zool.) having elevated marks on the surface; Sculptūresque′ chiselled: clean cut: statue-like.
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Examples
- Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But in some of these plants the seeds also differ in shape and sculpture. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What a world of ruined sculpture was about us! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You may sculpture to the inch every portion of the human body, but that is only the outward semblance of the picture or the statue. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was the first piece of sculpture of that size which had been seen in America. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The mockery of Aristophanes broke out (427 B.C.) only when the days of great tragedy and sculpture and building were drawing to a close. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He said it as he would say a piece of sculpture was remarkable, because he knew it was so. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Such sculptures as those of Phidias, Myron, and Polyclitus that still survive, witness to the artistic quality of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The pride of the world in sculptures seem to be the Laocoon and the Dying Gladiator, in Rome. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We find also a number of sculptures and paintings to enforce the idea that the Pharaohs were the actual sons of gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pictorial and sculptured record and _verbal tradition_ began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I think we appreciated the great figure of David in the grand square, and the sculptured group they call the Rape of the Sabines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Me--Dr. John--me; and a great abstraction on whose wide shoulders I like to lay the mountains of blame they were sculptured to bear: me and Fate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She pointed to the majestic block of white marble behind her, and there was deeply sculptured the one word Θε?ν. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Near the wall stood a fragment of sculptured stone--a monkish relic--once, perhaps, the base of a cross. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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