texture
See also: texturé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)
Noun
texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)
- The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
- The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
- (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
- The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
- (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
- The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play.
- 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
- (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
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- (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
- 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, OCLC 642619686:
- Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Of richest texture spread
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- (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
Related terms
- context
- pretext
- subtext
- texel
- text
- texton
- textual
- textural
Translations
feel or shape of a surface or substance
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art: quality produced by interaction of elements
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computer graphics: image applied to a polygon
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Verb
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
- To create or apply a texture.
- Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.
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Further reading
- texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- texture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
French
Etymology
From Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛk.styʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
texture f (plural textures)
- texture
Related terms
- texte
Further reading
- “texture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English texture.
Noun
texture f (uncountable)
- texture
Latin
Participle
textūre
- vocative masculine singular of textūrus