Sculptured

Definitions: Sculptured

Sculptured

Adjective

1. Cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured representations".

2. Resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies".

Date "sculptured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Sculptured

Synonyms: graven (adj), modeled (adj), sculpted (adj), sculptural (adj), sculpturesque (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sculptured

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sculpture	Adjective: sculptured; Verb: in relief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic; parian; marble; Noun: xanthian.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sculptured

English words defined with "sculptured": Aegicrania, Alto-rilievo ♦ Bucranium ♦ Carolitic, Corbell, Cushion capital ♦ Ectype ♦ frieze ♦ Ganocephala, Gyracanthus ♦ Jupiter's beard ♦ Knop ♦ Lion of Lucerne ♦ Sculptured tortoise ♦ Wood tortoise. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sculptured": CLAY MODELER ♦ sculptured pile, Seasons. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sculptured

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	! No, no, no. This is a Roche Vouceau. The finest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland and water resistant to three atmospheres. (Trading Places; writing credit: Timothy Harris; Herschel Weingrod)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sculptured

Domain	Title
Books	Art of the Andes : pre-Columbian sculptured and painted ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler collections (reference) Glass Hand Blown Sculptured Colored (reference) Glass: philosophy and method: hand-blown, sculptured, colored (reference) Lapidarium Walliae : the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales (reference) Sculptured In Twilight (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sculptured

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Photo Album: Sculptured

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Wind sculptured vegetation at New River.Credit: L. Mangan.		Sculptured lion made in Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Sculptured

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	At the terreplain of the Pont Neuf, the word (r)Redivivus was sculptured on the pedestal which awaited the statue of Henri IV.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sculptured

"Sculptured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.73% of the time. "Sculptured" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	86.73%	85	35,870
Lexical Verb (past participle)	9.18%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (past tense)	3.06%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	1.02%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	98	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sculptured

Expressions using "sculptured": sculptured pile ♦ sculptured surface ♦ sculptured tortoise. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sculptured": finely-sculptured, well-sculptured, wind-sculptured.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sculptured

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sculptured nail	33
sculptured sign	12
daisy metlox sculptured	5
cake sculptured	5
sculptured image	4
daisy sculptured	4
rock sculptured	4
sculptured rug	3
carpet sculptured	3
sculptured candle	3
decor exquisite indoor metal outdoor sculptured	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sculptured

Language		Translations for "sculptured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		雕刻 (Carve, Carved, Carving, Sculpturing). (various references)

Danish		reliefluv (sculptured pile). (various references)

Dutch		reliefpool (sculptured pile). (various references)

Finnish		kohokuvionukka (sculptured pile). (various references)

French		surface ciselée (sculptured surface), velours en relief (sculptured pile), poil ciselé (sculptured pile). (various references)

German		meißelte (chiseled, graved), geformt (fashioned, formed, modeled, modelled, shaped). (various references)

Greek		σκαλιστόσ (engraved). (various references)

Hebrew		מפוסל (carved). (various references)

Italian		velluto scolpito (sculptured pile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		群像 (sculptured group). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぐ�"ぞう (sculptured group). (various references)

Korean		조각하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ulpturedscay

Portuguese		pêlo em baixo relevo (sculptured pile). (various references)

Russian		рельефный (raised, repousse, salient). (various references)

Spanish		pelo labrado (sculptured pile). (various references)

Swedish		reliefsammet (sculptured pile), reliefmönstrat luggtyg (sculptured pile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sculptured

Misspellings
	"Sculptured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sculptur, sculpured. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sculptured"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sculptured" (pronounced sku"lpkherd)
4	-p kh er d	captured, enraptured, recaptured, ruptured.
3	-kh er d	butchered, caricatured, cultured, denatured, echard, featured, fractured, gestured, indentured, lectured, manufactured, natured, nurtured, orchard, pictured, punctured, remanufactured, restructured, structured, textured, tortured, ventured.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sculptured

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: sculpture.
	-2 letters: cultured, cultures, cutpurse, ductules, pustuled, resculpt, scrupled, sculpted, upcurled.
	-3 letters: cluster, crudest, crusted, culture, cupules, curdles, cutlers, ductule, dulcets, lustred, pluteus, precuts, pursued, pustule, relucts, rustled, scruple, sculped, slurped, spruced, spurted, spurtle, strudel, sutured, upcurls, usurped.
	-4 letters: crudes, cruets, cruset, culets, cultus, cupels, cupule, curdle, curets, curled, cursed, curule, cusped, cutler, cutups, drupes, dulcet, dupers, duster, dustup, educts, eructs, erupts, letups, lucres, lusted, luster, lustre, perdus, precut, prudes, pulers, pulsed, pulser, purest, purled, pursed, pursue, rectus, recuts, reluct, result, rudest, rusted, rustle, sculpt, spruce, sutler, suture, truced, truces, ulcers, ulster, upcurl, uterus.
	-5 letters: celts, clept, clued, clues, crept, crest, crude, cruds, cruel, cruet, cruse, crust, culet, cults, cupel, curds, cured, cures, curet, curls, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutup, delts, drest, drupe, druse, duces, ducts, duels, duets, dulse, duper, dupes, duple, dures, durst, ecrus, educt, eruct, erupt, letup, leuds, luces, lucre, ludes, lupus, lured, lures, luted, lutes, pelts, perdu, prest, prude, pseud, puces, puled, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, recut, ruled, rules, sculp, scute, setup, slept, slued, slurp, spelt, sprue, spued, spurt, strep, stupe, sucre, super, truce, trued, trues, tules, turds, turps, ulcer, upset, usurp.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: pulchritudes.
	+4 letters: quadruplicates.
	+5 letters: quadruplicities.
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