sculpt

English

Etymology

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʌlpt/

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Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.

   They sculpted a statue out of clay.

2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

   What do you do?
   -I used to box, but now I sculpt.

3. (transitive) To carve out gradually.

   Landforms sculpted by the wind.

Derived terms

• resculpt

Related terms

• sculptor
• sculpture

Translations

be a sculptor

• Armenian: քանդակել (hy) (kʻandakel)
• Bulgarian: вая (bg) (vaja), извайвам (bg) (izvajvam)
• Catalan: esculpir (ca)
• Esperanto: skulpti
• French: sculpter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: bildhauerisch gestalten, bildhauerisch tätig sein, formen (de), meißeln (de)
• Hungarian: szobrászkodni
• Latin: sculpō
• Maori: whakairo
• Norman: stchulpter
• Polish: rzeźbić (pl) impf, wyrzeźbić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: esculpir (pt)
• Russian: ваять (ru) (vajatʹ), лепить (ru) (lepitʹ)
• Spanish: esculpir (es)
• Swedish: skulptera (sv)
• Turkish: oymak (tr), yontmak (tr)

Noun

sculpt (plural sculpts)

1. (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

Further reading

• “sculpt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.