collage

The definition of a collage is a piece of art created by combining photos, clippings or small objects onto a surface.

(noun)

An example of a collage is a picture of a flower made with many pictures of friends and family.

To collage is defined as to group various items together.

(verb)

An example of to collage is to gather together pictures, words and pressed flowers to make a work of art.

See collage in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an art form in which, variously, small objects, bits of newspaper, cloth, pressed flowers, etc. are pasted together on a surface in incongruous relationship for their symbolic or suggestive effect
a composition so made
any collection of seemingly unrelated bits and parts, as in a photomontage

Origin: Fr, a pasting < colle, paste < Gr kolla, glue

transitive verb collaged, collaging

to arrange (material) in a collage

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See collage in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.
b. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.
The art of creating such compositions.
An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.

verb col·laged, col·lag·ing, col·lages

verb, transitive

To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.

verb, intransitive

To create such an artistic product.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from coller, to glue

Origin: , from colle, glue

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *colla

Origin: , from Greek kolla

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