sculpture
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sculpture
n 1: a three-dimensional work of plastic art
2: creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn:
{sculpture}, {carving}]
v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
"sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: {sculpt},
{sculpture}]
2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at
it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of
her husband" [syn: {sculpt}, {sculpture}, {grave}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "sculpture":
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
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