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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abstract art, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, assemble, autolithograph, be a printmaker, block out, bronze, bust, calligraphy, carve, carving, cast, cave art, ceramics, character, chase, chisel, conformation, crease, create, creation, cribble, crosshatch, cut, decoration, design, designing, doll, dolly, dummy, efform, efformation, enchase, engrave, engraving, etching, fantoccini, fashion, fashioning, figuration, figure, figurehead, figurine, fine arts, fix, folk art, forge, form, formalize, formation, formature, forming, found, frame, furrow, gingerbread man, graphic arts, grave, groove, group, hatch, head, hew, incise, inscribe, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay figure, lay out, lick into shape, line, lithograph, make prints, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marble, marionette, mark, mint, mobile, model, modeling, mold, molding, monument, morphogenesis, morphogeny, photography, plastic art, portrait bust, primitive art, print, puppet, relief, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scarecrow, score, scrape, scratch, sculp, sculpt, set, shape, shaping, snowman, solder, stabile, stamp, statuary, statue, statuette, stipple, tailor, terra cotta, the arts, thermoform, tool, wax figure, waxwork, weld, wood carving, work
Dictionary Results for sculpture:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sculpture
    n 1: a three-dimensional work of plastic art
    2: creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn:
       sculpture, carving]
    v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
         "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: sculpt,
         sculpture]
    2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at
       it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of
       her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture, grave]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf. F.
   sculpture.]
   1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal,
      etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as
      of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing
      figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal,
      etc.
      [1913 Webster]

            There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen
            The mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.]
   To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or
   metal; to carve; to engrave.
   [1913 Webster]

   Sculptured tortoise (Zool.), a common North American wood
      tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with
      strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
      figures.
      [1913 Webster]

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