sculp·ture

(skŭlp′chər)

1. The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.

a. A work of art created by sculpture.

b. Such works of art considered as a group.

3. Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.

v. sculp·tured, sculp·tur·ing, sculp·tures

v.tr.

1. To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure.

2. To represent in sculpture: sculpture a lion.

3. To ornament with sculpture.

4. To change the shape or contour of, as by erosion.

v.intr.

To make sculptures or a sculpture.

[Middle English, from Latin sculptūra, from sculptus, past participle of sculpere, to carve; see skel- in Indo-European roots.]

sculp′tur·al adj.

sculp′tur·al·ly adv.

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sculptured

(ˈskʌlptʃəd)

adj

1. (Art Terms) carved, cast, or fashioned three-dimensionally

2. resembling a sculpture

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	sculptured - cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured representations" graven, sculpted carved, carven - made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary); "the carved fretwork"; "an intricately carved door"; "stood as if carven from stone"
	2.	sculptured - resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies" modeled, sculpturesque, sculptural shapely - having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs"

Translations

sculptured

[ˈskʌlptʃə^rd] adj → sculpté(e)sculpture garden n → jardin m de sculpturessculpture park n → parc m de sculptures

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sculptured

adj

(lit) → geformt; (in stone) → gehauen, gemeißelt; decorated with sculptured flowers → mit plastisch gearbeiteten Blumen verziert

(fig) cheekbones, profile → ausgeprägt, markant

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Then in the long, pointed windows, glass of a thousand hues; at the wide entrances to the hall, rich doors, finely sculptured; and all, the vaults, pillars, walls, jambs, panelling, doors, statues, covered from top to bottom with a splendid blue and gold illumination, which, a trifle tarnished at the epoch when we behold it, had almost entirely disappeared beneath dust and spiders in the year of grace, 1549, when du Breul still admired it from tradition.

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Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all.

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Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning -- little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."

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