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escultura — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • carving noun An object made by cutting or shaping wood, stone, or another material.
  • sculpture noun A three-dimensional work of art made by carving, modelling, casting, or assembling material.

Senses

escultura is used for these senses in English:

  • carving The act or craft of producing a carved object.
  • sculpture (countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
  • sculpture (countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.

carving — full definition

  1. noun An object made by cutting or shaping wood, stone, or another material.
  2. noun The craft or act of shaping material by cutting.

sculpture — full definition

  1. noun A three-dimensional work of art made by carving, modelling, casting, or assembling material.
  2. noun Sculptures considered collectively, as a category of art.
  3. verb To shape material into a three-dimensional artistic form.

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