sculpt

English

Etymology

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skʌlpt/
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Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

  1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.
    They sculpted a statue out of clay.
  2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.
    What do you do?
    -I used to box, but now I sculpt.
  3. (transitive) To carve out gradually.
    Landforms sculpted by the wind.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sculpt (plural sculpts)

  1. (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

Further reading
  • “sculpt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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