Sculpt

Definition: Sculpt

Sculpt

Verb

1. Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice".

2. Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Sculpt

Am I supposed to sculpt the penis (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

You mean where we all sculpt and paint and stuff (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Anyone Can Sculpt (reference)

• Anyone can sculpt; a book of established and new methods and techniques for amateurs and students (reference)

• Hardcore Action Bodybuilding: Pumping Iron to Sculpt a Winning Body (reference)

• Heidi Miller's Body Sculpting: Sculpt Tone and Firm Your Body to Its Most Perfect Proportions (reference)

• No Smoking (All in the Family Drama Sculpt Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crunch - Cardio Sculpt (reference)

• Zone - Body Sculpt Big Ball Workout (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Charles Chauncy, M.D., F.R.S. / Francis Coates pinxt. 1750. Caroline Watson sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Wm. Buchan, M.D. / A. von Assen sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Draco and Ursa Minor / Sidy. Hall, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Camelopardalis, Tarandus and Custos Messium / Sidy. Hall, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

The first journey of "Victory," 1778 / W.L. Wyllie, R.A., pinxt.; Harold Wyllie, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

A view of the present seat of his Excel., the Vice President of the United States / Tiebout, del & sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Le Dame de charite / Mme. Baudebour pinxt. ; Leroux sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Custom House, New York, 1799-1815 / Wm. Rollinson, del. ; W.M. Aikman, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Summer's evening / E. Bodoy pinxt. ; C. Manigaud sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

skalit (carve, chase, engrave, incise, inscribe, sculp, sculpture), skalis (carve, chase, engrave, incise, inscribe, sculp, sculpture), gdhendje (carving, engraving, in-cut, inscription, intaglio, shaping), gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, gouge, incise, inscribe, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpture, shape, shave). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), ‏نحت (boast, carving, chisel, erode, gouge, incise, pattern, scratch, sculpture). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вая (chisel, sculp, sculpture), извайвам (chisel, sculp, sculpture). (various references)

Farsi 

منقورکردن , حجاری کردن . (various references)

French

sculpter (sculpture), modelage, faire de la sculpture. (various references)

German

formen (articulate, cast, forge, form, model, mold, molding, sculpture, shape, to form), bildhauen. (various references)

Greek 

πλάθω (conjure up, fashion, make, mould), λαξεύω (carve, chase, chisel, hew), δίνω σχήμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפסל (carve, chisel, gouge, hew), לחטב (carve, cut). (various references)

Hungarian

megformáz, kifaragott, farag (carve, chisel, grave, hew, scrimshaw, sculpture, shave, skive, to carve, to chip, to pare, to sculpt, to sculpture, to trim). (various references)

Indonesian

memahat (carve, emboss, grave). (various references)

Italian

scolpire (carve, engrave, grave, inscribe, sculpture), formare (constitute, educate, forge, form, frame, make, Mold, mould, shape, train). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulptscay.(various references)

Portuguese

esculpir (carve, chisel, engrave, grave, scrimshaw, sculpture, whittle away). (various references)

Russian 

ваять (chisel, sculp, sculpture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skulptura (sculpture, statue), kip (atlas, statue). (various references)

Spanish

hacer esculturas (sculpture), esculpir (carve, sculpture), entallar (notch, tailor), amoldar (fashion, forge, form, Mold, mould, shape). (various references)

Swedish

skulptera (carve, sculpture). (various references)

Thai

แกะสลัก (etch in, sculpture). (various references)

Turkish

yontmak (chip, chisel, cut, fair, fine away, fine down, hack, hew, lick into shape, pare, pare off, sculp, sculpture, skive, Whittle), oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpture, trace over, tribe), heykeltraşlık yapmak (sculp, sculpture), heykeltraşlık (sculp, sculpture, statuary), heykelini yapmak (sculp, sculpture), heykel (effigy, image, sculp, sculptural, statuary, statue). (various references)

Ukrainian

висікати (carve, hew out), ліпити (model, sculpture). (various references)

ceorfan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sculpt": sculpted, sculpting, sculptor, sculptors, sculptress, sculptresses, sculpts, sculptural, sculpturally, sculpture, sculptured, sculptures, sculpturesque, sculpturesquely, sculpturing. (additional references)

Words ending with "sculpt": resculpt. (additional references)

Words containing "sculpt": resculpted, resculpting, resculpts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sculpt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scilt, scult, sulp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cults, sculp.

-2 letters: cult, cups, cusp, cuts, lust, plus, puls, puts, scup, scut, tups.

-3 letters: cup, cut, pul, pus, put, sup, tup, ups, uts.

-4 letters: up, us, ut.

+1 letter: sculpts.

+2 letters: couplets, culprits, octuples, potlucks, resculpt, sculpted, sculptor.

+3 letters: aspectual, catapults, centuples, clumpiest, copulates, eucalypts, octuplets, peculates, plectrums, pluckiest, poultices, publicist, resculpts, sculpting, sculptors, sculpture, speculate.

+4 letters: cantaloups, capsulated, captiously, crumpliest, duplicates, eucalyptus, exculpates, inculpates, leucoplast, patchoulis, peculators, petulances, pleustonic, plutocrats, pocketfuls, pocketsful, populistic, portcullis, portulacas, postlaunch, postulancy, publicists, pugilistic, punctilios, resculpted, respectful, scriptural, sculptress, sculptural, sculptured, sculptures, speculated, speculates, speculator, supplicant, supplicate, teacupfuls, teacupsful.