texture
tex·ture (teks′c̸hər)
noun
- Archaic a woven fabric
- the character of a woven fabric as determined by the arrangement, size, quality, etc. of the fabric's threads coarse texture, twilled texture
- the arrangement of the particles or constituent parts of any material, as wood, metal, etc., as it affects the appearance or feel of the surface; structure, composition, grain, etc.
- the tactile surface quality of a work of art, resulting from the artist's technique
- the melodic and harmonic relationships of musical materials
- basic structure the texture of society
Etymology: ME < L textura < texere, to weave: see technic
transitive verb -·tured, -·tur·ing
to cause to have a particular texture
texture
n.
Quality
character, disposition, surface, fineness, roughness, coarseness, feeling, feel, touch, sense, flexibility, stiffness, smoothness, weave, taste; see also fiber 2.Structure
composition, weave, organization, arrangement, balance, strategy, intermixture; see also construction 2, form 2.
Converse of object
- weave: The instrument sounds weave a color texture with runs, arpeggios and syncopated chords.
- refine: Discover the Pore Refining Peel-off mask that eliminates your skins impurities and smoothes and refines the texture of your skin!
- add: Lastly, we have added a third texture to the pot.
- contrast: I delight in experimenting with the surface of the metals, contrasting fine textures with highly polished areas.
- vary: His work at on form 04 also shows his preoccupation with the varying textures of stone.
- layer: Lloyd created the searing solos while Verlaine provided the layered textures.
Adjective modifier
- creamy: Medium blue flavor with a firm, creamy texture.
- silky: Durum wheat and whole egg is golden and gives a smooth and silky texture.
- crunchy: Lastly add the chopped pepper, which gives a lovely crunchy texture.
- velvety: Francesca adds: adding the onions at step 4 gives them a lovely velvety texture.
- crumbly: The paste is yellow, stippled with blue and with a crumbly texture.
- chewy: It has a mild taste, and firm but slightly chewy texture.
Modifies a noun
- mapping: Example of using texture mapping to mimic ray tracing.
- classification: This data is used in a variety of surface texture classification schemes.
Noun used with modifier
- surface: The driving force behind her work is the creation of surface texture which she applies to simple, organically derived forms.
- high-resolution: New high-resolution textures and motion-captured technology bring WWE programming to life like never before.
- satin: To combat potential negative aspects of stainless, choose a model with a satin texture finish.
- gel: Plus points: A clear, ultra-light gel texture that's exceptionally refreshing on the skin.
- skin: It allows your fingers to glide smoothly so you can easily detect lumps or altered skin texture.
- soil: Soil texture - OM is less easily degraded on clay soils.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
I have always wanted to develop a way of writing that was irrevocably black. I don't have the resources of a musician but I thought that if it was truly black literature, it would not be black because Iwas, it would notevenbe black because of its subject matter. It would be something intrinsic, indigenous, something in the way it was put togetheröthe sentences, the structure, texture and toneöso that anyone who read it would realize.
Texture is the content of painterly surfaces.
Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.
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