Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To sculpture (an object).
- v. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: "Zoning is a blunt instrument that can at best shape but should not try to sculpt cities” ( H. Claude Shostal).
- v. To be a sculptor.
Wiktionary
- v. To be a sculptor
WordNet 3.0
- v. create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
- v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
Etymologies
- From Latin sculpere ("to cut out, carve in stone"). (Wiktionary)
- French sculpter, from Old French, from Latin sculpere, sculpt-, to carve; see sculpture. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The pose translates well, and the sculpt is tight and accurate.”
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“The sculpt is extremely dynamic and tight, and the paints are exceptionally bordered.”
“The sculpt is true to the Electric Tiki cartoonish style and looks fantastic with this pose, while the paints are suitably flat throughout most of the piece with just a bit of shading on the face.”
“The sculpt is accurate, and the overall design is good, from the details in the quiver down to the base that features a different trick arrow head on each of its six angled sides.”
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“Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted”
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“Thank you this nice post ollie what always irked me a bit about that rick baker sculpt is that it's way too scraggly and decrepit, popeye's only supposed to be about 44 years old (at least according to that cartoon where he first reunited with his pappy)”
“The truly intricate element to the sculpt is the stained glass windows on the doors.”
“Despite that, the sculpt is a decent one for this starship.”
“Baucus, the Finance Committee chairman, has suggested that Congress might need to "sculpt" a public option, presumably to make it less attractive.”
“He also has suggested that Congress might have to "sculpt" any public option, presumably to make it less appealing to Americans if some version survives in the reform bill.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sculpt’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 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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synchronicity, serpent, surreal, snake, Satan, secret, sullen, see, sight, shade, spill, scramble and 41 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 121
be up, conduct, séance, Liberace, snowcap, devil dog, ho-ho, fruit cocktail, syrup, consistant, guilty, guilt and 70 more...
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