"sculpt" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /skʌlpt/ Audio: en-us-sculpt.ogg 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
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Verb

IPA: /skʌlpt/ Audio: en-us-sculpt.ogg 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
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  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 Disambiguation of 'be a sculptor': 10 90 0
  3. (transitive) To carve out gradually. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-sculpt-en-verb-nEz-QCbf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: resculpt Related terms: sculptor, sculpture

Inflected forms

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      "word": "bildhauerisch gestalten"
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      "sense": "be a sculptor",
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      "sense": "be a sculptor",
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