Word Meanings - SCULPTURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot.

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• SCULPTURESQUE
  After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
• SCULPTURE
  1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. 2. Carved work
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• INSCULPTURED
  Engraved. Glover.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• HELIOTYPE
  A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
• APHELIOTROPISM
  The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
• PHOTOSCULPTURE
  A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.
• DIAHELIOTROPISM
  A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
• INSCULPTURE
  An engraving, carving, or inscription. On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.
• DIAHELIOTROPIC
  Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
• HELIOTROPER
  The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach