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Words people most associate with “sculpture”:

  1. art,
  2. statue,
  3. artist,
  4. painting,
  5. david

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Noun (2 meanings)

1. a three-dimensional work of plastic art.

sculpture

sculpture is a type of:
types of sculpture:
  • bronze (noun) - a sculpture made of bronze
  • bust (noun) - a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
  • carving (noun) - a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape
  • marble (noun) - a sculpture carved from marble
  • mobile (noun) - sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
sculpture is derivationally related to:

2. creating figures or designs in three dimensions.

sculpture, carving

sculpture is a type of:
types of sculpture:
sculpture is derivationally related to:
  • to carve, chip at (verb) - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
  • to sculpt, sculpture, grave (verb) - shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
  • to sculpt, sculpture (verb) - create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material

Verb (2 meanings)

1. create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material.

to sculpt, sculpture

Example:
  • “sculpt a swan out of a block of ice”
to sculpture is a way to:
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2. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it.

to sculpt, sculpture, grave

Example:
  • “She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband”
to sculpture is a way to:
  • to carve (verb) - form by carving
to sculpture is derivationally related to:
Verb group:
  • to sculpt, sculpture (verb) - create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material