texture

English

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Etymology

From Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from texere (“to weave”), past participle textus; see text.

Pronunciation

• (US)
  • IPA: /ˈtɛkstʃər/
  • X-SAMPA: /"tEkstS@r/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

texture (plural textures)

1. 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.

2. (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.

   The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture.

3. (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface,

Related terms

• context
• pretext
• subtext
• texel
• texton
• text
• textual

Translations

feel or shape of a surface or substance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 質地 (cmn), 质地 (cmn) (zhídì)

• Dutch: textuur (nl)
• Finnish: tuntu (fi), tuntuma (fi), rakenne (fi)
• French: texture (fr) f

• German: Textur (de) f
• Russian: строение (ru) (strojénije) n, структура (ru) (struktúra) f, текстура (ru) (tekstúra) f, ткань (ru) (tkanʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh (gd) m
• Welsh: gwead (cy) m

art: quality produced by interaction of elements

• Finnish: rakenne (fi)

• French: texture (fr) f

computer graphics: image applied to a polygon

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 質地 (cmn), 质地 (cmn) (zhídì)

• Dutch: textuur (nl)
• Finnish: tekstuuri (fi)
• French: texture (fr) m

• German: Textur (de) f
• Italian: texture (it) f
• Japanese: テクスチャ (ja) (tekusucha)
• Russian: текстура (ru) (tekstúra) f

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 纹理
• Dutch: textuur (nl)

• Icelandic: áferð
• Spanish: textura (es) f

Verb

texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)

1. to create or apply a texture

   Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

External links

• texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• texture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Etymology

From Middle French texture, from Latin textura (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from texere (“to weave”), past participle textus; see text.

Noun

texture f (plural textures)

1. texture