sculpture
Definition of sculpture:
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
The art of carving figures in wood, stone, etc.: carved work.
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part of speech: noun
The art of cutting or carving stone to form representations of visible or ideal objects, as the figure of a man; any work of art produced by the chisel.
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part of speech: verb
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Common misspellings:
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- sulpuer (1.3%)
- sculputure (2.0%)
- sculptute (1.3%)
- sculputer (0.7%)
- scupture (13.4%)
- sclupture (1.3%)
- scultpure (10.1%)
- scultpture (2.7%)
- sculture (20.1%)
- sculputre (5.4%)
- sculpure (8.1%)
- sculpter (0.7%)
- suclpture (2.7%)
- scolpture (1.3%)
- scuplture (20.1%)
- scrupture (0.7%)
- sculpures (1.3%)
- sculptur (2.7%)
- sculptie (1.3%)
- sculpur (1.3%)
- sulputre (1.3%)
Usage examples for sculpture:
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Yet in the realms of literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture politics, and even science, Jews will be found frequently occupying the second or third ranks, and only very seldom the first.
"Secret Societies And Subversive Movements" – Nesta H. Webster -
The sculpture of the hills here is more wind than water work, though the quick storms do sometimes scar them past many a year's redeeming.
"The Land Of Little Rain" – Mary Hunter Austin -
The transmission of the tradition through very nearly three centuries proved correct, for on its being loosened by the frosts of a severe winter, it fell, and its religious distinction became immediately apparent from the sculpture with which it was adorned.
"Folklore as an Historical Science" – George Laurence Gomme -
An examination of most of the other wall- decorations of the speos will furnish several examples of this type: we see Ramses with a suitable gesture brandishing his weapon above a group of prisoners, and the composition furnishes us with a fair example of official sculpture correct, conventional, but devoid of interest.
"History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)" – G. Maspero