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texture
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "network, structure," from Middle French texture and directly from Latin textura "web, texture, structure," from stem of texere "to weave," from PIE root *teks- "to weave, to fabricate, to make; make wicker or wattle framework" (cognates: Sanskrit ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In materials science , texture is the distribution of crystallographic orientations of a polycrystalline sample. A sample in which these orientations are fully random is said to have no distinct texture. If the crystallographic orientations are not random, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Texture \Tex"ture\, n. [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text .] The act or art of weaving. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. --Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, ...
Usage examples of texture.
As she leaned against the wall of the house, the rough texture of the red brick gently abraded her bare shoulders.
His voice made Addle think of coffee, deep and dark and rich, with a texture that slid between her senses.
Behind them, the sage continued his chant, reciting slokas upon slokas, the mantras seeming to change the very texture of the air they breathed, infusing their lungs with raw, pure energy drawn down from the akasa to replace the foul atmosphere of the Bhayanak-van.
Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.
She displaces with her texture, the frank affront of her skin, the arpeggiated toss of her hair.
He rubbed it bethumb and forefinger, as if testing its texture, then handed it to Howard.
The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky.
I start having my cowhide supplier send you the raw goods, dye, tackiness, and texture built in and ready for cutting, what the bottom line is.
It was warm, spicy, meaty, with an oily texture that seemed to vanish into dry crumbliness in his mouth.
I reached out, and my fingers passed through her arm: her flesh, crumbling into cuboid pixels, had the texture of dead leaves.
If you stare at one spot long enough, the random texture gets interpreted into some coherent image, or the suggestion of one, like an inkblot or those decalcomania and frottage pieces Max Ernst dabbled with.
A thick carpeting of palas trees gave the north bank a rich red texture, like the intricate, dense weave of the deep-pile Gandahari dhurries his mother loved to collect.
It was a substance not only of the mind and spirit but of the very texture of the body, so that it seemed they had been begot from acid and envenomed loins, and nurtured all their lives on nameless and abominable rations.
The upper part of the mouth of the cetacean was, indeed, provided on both sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge like great combs, at which the teeth, six feet long, served to retain the thousands of animalculae, little fish, and molluscs, on which the whale fed.
The other, a chocolate cookie whose dark, fudgy essence and brownie-like texture I could already savor, I would call 911 Cookies - for chocolate emergencies.