"sculpt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /skʌlpt/ Audio: en-us-sculpt.ogg [US] Forms: sculpts [plural]
Etymology: From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|sculpter}} French sculpter, {{der|en|la|sculpō||to cut out, carve in stone}} Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sculpt (plural sculpts)
  1. (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance. Categories (topical): Computer graphics
    Sense id: en-sculpt-en-noun--8myDvBY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 8 46 10 Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Verb [English]

IPA: /skʌlpt/ Audio: en-us-sculpt.ogg [US] Forms: sculpts [present, singular, third-person], sculpting [participle, present], sculpted [participle, past], sculpted [past]
Etymology: From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|sculpter}} French sculpter, {{der|en|la|sculpō||to cut out, carve in stone}} Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)
  1. (transitive) To form by sculpture. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-sculpt-en-verb-AbrmQgpE
  2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor. Tags: intransitive Translations (be a sculptor): քանդակել (kʻandakel) (Armenian), вая (vaja) (Bulgarian), извайвам (izvajvam) (Bulgarian), esculpir (Catalan), skulpti (Esperanto), sculpter (French), bildhauerisch gestalten (German), bildhauerisch tätig sein (German), formen (German), meißeln (German), szobrászkodni (Hungarian), sculpō (Latin), whakairo (Maori), stchulpter (Norman), rzeźbić [imperfective] (Polish), wyrzeźbić [perfective] (Polish), esculpir (Portuguese), ваять (vajatʹ) (Russian), лепить (lepitʹ) (Russian), esculpir (Spanish), skulptera (Swedish), oymak (Turkish), yontmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sculpt-en-verb-8lKFaQiq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 8 46 10 Disambiguation of 'be a sculptor': 10 89 1
  3. (transitive) To carve out gradually. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-sculpt-en-verb-nEz-QCbf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 8 46 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: resculpt Related terms: sculptor, sculpture

Inflected forms

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