texture
See also: texturé
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛkst͡ʃɚ/, /ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)
Noun edit
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:
- Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
- (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:
- 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; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Of richest texture spread
- (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
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Translations edit
feel or shape of a surface or substance
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art: quality produced by interaction of elements
computer graphics: image applied to a polygon
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Verb edit
texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
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Further reading edit
- “texture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “texture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
texture f (plural textures)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “texture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English texture.
Noun edit
texture f (uncountable)
Latin edit
Participle edit
textūre