texture

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texture

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.
(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

Arabic: مَلْمَس‎ (malmas)
Bulgarian: текстура f (tekstura)
Catalan: textura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 質地／质地 (zh) (zhídì)
Czech: struktura povrchu f
Danish: tekstur c
Dutch: textuur (nl)
Finnish: tuntu (fi), tuntuma (fi), rakenne (fi)
French: texture (fr) f
Galician: textura f
German: Textur (de) f
Hungarian: szövet (hu), tapintás (hu), tapintású (hu)
Indonesian: tekstur (id)
Latin: textūra f
Maori: kakano
Marathi: पोत m (pot)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekstur m

Nynorsk: tekstur m
Romanian: țesătură (ro) f, textură (ro) f
Russian: строе́ние (ru) n (strojénije), структу́ра (ru) f (struktúra), тексту́ра (ru) f (tekstúra), ткань (ru) f (tkanʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh m
Slovak: štruktúra povrchu f
Spanish: textura (es) f
Ukrainian: тексту́ра f (tekstúra)
Welsh: gwead (cy) m

art: quality produced by interaction of elements

Catalan: textura (ca) f
Finnish: rakenne (fi)
French: texture (fr) f
Romanian: calitate a țesăturii f

computer graphics: image applied to a polygon

Catalan: textura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 質地／质地 (zh) (zhídì)
Czech: textura f
Dutch: textuur (nl)
Finnish: tekstuuri (fi), kuviointi (fi)
French: texture (fr) m
German: Textur (de) f
Italian: texture (it) f
Japanese: テクスチャ (tekusucha)
Romanian: textură (ro) f
Russian: тексту́ра (ru) f (tekstúra)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} textuur (nl)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} áferð (is)
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 纹理 (zh) (wénlǐ)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} textura (es) f

Verb edit

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.

Translations edit

Translations

Finnish: rapata (fi) (with plaster), teksturoida (fi) (computer graphics)
German: texturieren (chiefly computer graphics)
Polish: teksturować impf

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.