Sunday, 27 February 2011

TEXTURE

1. A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.
2. The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangment of its parts: the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.
3.
a. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap.
b. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture.
4. Distinctive or identifying quality or character: "an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).
5. The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: "The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/texture)

–noun
1.the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
2.the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
3.the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture.
4.an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
5.Fine Arts .
a.the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
b.the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
6.the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
7.a rough or grainy surface quality.
8.anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
–verb (used with object)
9.to give texture or a particular texture to.
10.to make by or as if by weaving.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/texture)

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