Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.
- n. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.
- n. The art of creating such compositions.
- n. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.
- v. To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.
- v. To create such an artistic product.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The process of clearing wine by means of isinglass or gelatin.
Wiktionary
- n. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
- n. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..
- n. uncountable The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.
- v. transitive To make into a collage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.
- n. the technique of producing a work of art that is a collage{1}.
- n. any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types.
- n. (Cinema) a film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
- n. any collection of diverse things
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French collage (Wiktionary)
- French, from coller, to glue, from colle, glue, from Vulgar Latin *colla, from Greek kolla. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Turner uses the word "collage" critically to represent the diffuse meanings in McDonald's vision: Collage, argues theorist Janelle G.”
“He assumed it was an artist who had been using Arbus images in collage work; I assured him it was not and I described the project.”
“One of the best things about collage is that most of what you need will already be in the home or bought inexpensively.”
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“Yes | No | Report from kolbster wrote 51 weeks 6 days ago ya Roy is one of the best coaches in collage basketball.”
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“A collage is like the past: you cannot wipe it away.”
“Brent Birnbaum, an artist working in collage with found materials, offered the most charming answer in describing the relationship between his collage of price tags and the book Popism: The Warhol Sixties: "Seeing the world as a shopping mall for art material is what that book freed me to do.”
“The found-art sculpture/collage is wonderful -- that image stayed with me, even as the book went unrecalled.”
“Would that be the same guy who was mediocre in collage, a failed businessman, and a proven rotten President.”
“This collage is despicable, as is Ms. Goforth's "apology".”
“Especially in collage and mosaic art, art made from throw-away materials, cheapie stuff, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘collage’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 135 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Art
daguerreotype, impressionism, expressionism, action painting, sketch, collage, photography, sculpture, dadaism, mutoscope, filigree, aesthete
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
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even more:
glisten, gleam, sparkle, shine, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more... -
Culture Jamming
appropriate, subvertise, adbust, detournement, carnivalesque, remix, mashup, critical, protest, subvertisement, adbusting, disrupt and 47 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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GRE List
anthem, ablution, apocrypha, augur, cardinal, cathedral, chant, chapel, cloister, conformist, cult, devout and 145 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
Tweets
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kalidas definition: an assembly of diverse fragments
see montage Jan 2, 2007