Dictionary Entry
sculpture
sculpture is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
- 3transitive verb
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
- 4noun
creating figures or designs in three dimensions
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- 5noun
a three-dimensional work of plastic art
- 6verb
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"
- 7verb
create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
"sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"
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