English > sculpture: 4 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A three-dimensional work of plastic art. |
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| Narrower | bronze | A sculpture made of bronze |
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| bust | A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person |
| carving | A sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone / stone) in order to create a desired shape |
| marble | A sculpture carved from marble |
| mobile | sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents |
| mold, mould, molding, moulding, modeling, clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding / molding |
| relief, relievo, rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief | sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background |
| stabile | A sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support |
| statue | A sculpture representing a human or animal |
| Broader | plastic art | The arts of shaping or modeling |
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| solid figure, three-dimensional figure | A three-dimensional shape |
| Spanish | escultura |
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| Catalan | escultura |
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| Adjectives | sculptural | relating to or consisting of sculpture |
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| sculptural | resembling sculpture |
| Verbs | sculpt, sculpture | shape (a material like stone / stone or wood) by whittling away at it |
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| sculpt, sculpture | create by shaping stone / stone or wood or any other hard material |
