Texture
['tekstʃə] or ['tɛkstʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance); 'breadfruit has the same texture as bread'; 'sand of a fine grain'; 'fish with a delicate flavor and texture'; 'a stone of coarse grain'.
(noun.) the feel of a surface or a fabric; 'the wall had a smooth texture'.
(noun.) the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality.
(noun.) the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together; 'then another melodic line is added to the texture'.
(noun.) the essential quality of something; 'the texture of Neapolitan life'.
Checked by Gilbert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or art of weaving.
(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.
Edited by Elena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fabric, web.[2]. Structure, make, organization, constitution, tissue.
Typist: Ruben
Definition
n. anything woven a web: manner of weaving or connecting: disposition of the parts of a body.—adj. Tex′tūral.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- What colour, and what texture! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The assembled warriors and chieftains examined me closely, feeling my muscles and the texture of my skin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This is indeed, he continued, as he looked at the flimsy texture and slender fingers, a slight and frail gage for a purpose so deadly! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The reality that is worthy of attention is a change in the very texture and quality of millions of lives--a change that will be vividly perceptible only in the retrospect of history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such is the texture of Persian history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Only vast and complicated changes in the whole texture of social life will achieve such an end. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Phelps