different between sculpture vs sculpturesque
sculpture
English
Etymology
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sk?lpt???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
- Hyphenation: sculp?ture
Noun
sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)
- (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
Translations
Verb
sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)
- To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
- To represent something in sculpture.
- To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
Translations
Related terms
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptureless
- sculpturelike
Further reading
- sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
- Homophone: sculptures
Noun
sculpture f (plural sculptures)
- sculpture
Further reading
- “sculpture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- sculpteur
Latin
Participle
sculpt?re
- vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus
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sculpturesque
English
Etymology
sculpture +? -esque
Adjective
sculpturesque (comparative more sculpturesque, superlative most sculpturesque)
- Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.
- 1864: Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic
- ...many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system...
- 1864: Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic
Translations
sculpturesque From the web:
- what does sculpturesque meaning
- what do sculpturesque meaning
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