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Definitions for Texture

[1] the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
[2] the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
[3] the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture.
[4] an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
[5] Fine Arts . the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used. the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
[6] the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
[7] a rough or grainy surface quality.
[8] anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
[9] to give texture or a particular texture to.
[10] to make by or as if by weaving.
[11] the surface of a material, esp as perceived by the sense of touch a wall with a rough texture
[12] the structure, appearance, and feel of a woven fabric
[13] the general structure and disposition of the constituent parts of something the texture of a cake
[14] the distinctive character or quality of something the texture of life in America
[15] the nature of a surface other than smooth woollen cloth has plenty of texture
[16] art the representation of the nature of a surface the painter caught the grainy texture of the sand
[17] music considered as the interrelationship between the horizontally presented aspects of melody and rhythm and the vertically represented aspect of harmony a contrapuntal texture the nature and quality of the instrumentation of a passage, piece, etc
[18] (tr) to give a distinctive usually rough or grainy texture to

Words related to Texture

balance, sense, fabric, nature, taste, pattern, makeup, character, surface, smoothness, consistency, touch, feeling, quality, composition, structure, being, essence, flexibility, fineness

Words nearby Texture

textual criticism, textualism, textualist, textuary, textural, texture, texture paint, texturize, textus receptus, teyde, tezcatlipoca

Origin of Texture

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin textūra web, equivalent to text(us ) (past participle of texere to weave) + -ūra -ure

Other words from Texture

tex·tur·al , adjective
tex·tur·al·ly , adverb
tex·ture·less , adjective
non·tex·tur·al , adjective
non·tex·tur·al·ly , adverb
re·tex·ture , verb (used with object), re·tex·tured, re·tex·tur·ing.
sem·i·tex·tur·al , adjective
sem·i·tex·tur·al·ly , adverb
un·tex·tur·al , adjective
tex′ tured adj.

Word origin for Texture

C15: from Latin textūra web, from texere to weave

Synonyms for Texture

balance, character, composition, consistency, fabric, feeling, makeup, nature, pattern, quality, sense, smoothness, structure, surface, taste, touch, arrangement, being, coarseness, constitution, disposition, essence, essentiality, feel, fiber, fineness, flexibility, form, framework, grain, intermixture, make, nap, organization, roughness, scheme, stiffness, strategy, tissue, warp, weave, web, woof