texture

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§EtymologyEdit

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

§PronunciationEdit

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛkstʃə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)

§NounEdit

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,
4. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
   • Thomson

     Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

6. (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

§Related termsEdit

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

§TranslationsEdit

§VerbEdit

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 linksEdit

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

§EtymologyEdit

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

§NounEdit

texture f (plural textures)

1. texture

§External linksEdit

• “texture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).