texturen.

/ˈtɛkstjʊə/

Etymology: < Latin textūra a weaving: see text n.¹ and -ure suffix¹. So French texture (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.).

†1.

a. The process or art of weaving. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving

webbinga1325

weaving1377

texture1447

endrapering1461

loom-work1598

contexture1649

textury1658

loom1678

woof1700

weavering1720

tissue1850

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 145 Mynerve hyr self wych hath the sovereynte Of gay texture, as declayryth Ovyde.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 256 Coats of skinnes..a naturall habit.. before the invention of Texture .

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Texture,..a weaving.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 87 Pallas taught the texture of the loom.

†b. figurative. The fabricating, machinating, or composing of schemes, conspiracies, writings, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun]

compassinga1300

contrivingc1330

undermining1433

imagininga1449

engininga1450

practising?1545

machinationc1550

packing1587

plotting1593

contrival1602

managing1607

tamperinga1627

practicking1640

texturea1641

contrivance1647

briguing1657

intrigue1668

intriguing1801

policizing1809

scheming1813

intriguery1815

schemery1822

plottery1823

shenanigan1855

game playing1916

shenaniganning1924

wheeler-dealing1968

wheeling and dealing1969

wheeling-dealing1973

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iv. 275 First they began their malicious texture with secret whisperings, and giving out in corners.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xciv. 247 The exquisite diligence used in the texture of those his Eternal Labours.

a. The produce of the weaver's art; a woven fabric; a web; cloth. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven

webOE

wefta1398

stuff1462

tissue1565

weave1581

contexture1603

textile1626

texturea1656

woof1674

webbing1739

fabric1753

mail net1875

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 260 The invaluable sumptuousness of the Temple..the curious celatures, and artificial textures.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 32 Others..far in the grassy Dale Their humble Texture weave.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 28 When the dyer dyes A texture, can the red dye prime the white?

b. transferred. Any natural structure having an appearance or consistence as if woven; a tissue; a web, e.g. of a spider. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [noun] > network of

texture1578

plexus1666

plexure1672

weaving1739

chiasma1839

incruciation1855

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web

webOE

netOE

cobweb1323

lop-webc1400

wevet1499

attercop1530

spider-web1535

caul1548

mouseweb1556

spider coba1571

twail1608

spider's cloth1638

cockweba1642

texturea1774

worm-web1822

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 56 The notable texture of Mesenterium.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 499 That phlegme..which distilleth out of that texture or web into the ventricles.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 525 That the spirits are attenuated in the textures of the small arteries, & in the strayghtes of those passages.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 111 Nor the spider entangle the heedless fly in his texture.

1877 J. Tyndall in Daily News 2 Oct. 2/4 His physical and intellectual textures have been woven for him during his passage through phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past.

†c. A ‘woven’ or composed narrative or story.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account

talec1200

historyc1230

sawc1320

tellinga1325

treatisec1374

chroniclec1380

process?1387

legendc1390

prosec1390

pistlec1395

treatc1400

relationc1425

rehearsal?a1439

report?a1439

narrationc1449

recorda1450

count1477

redec1480

story1489

recount1490

deductiona1532

repetition1533

narrative1539

discourse1546

account1561

recital1561

enarrative1575

legendary1577

enarration1592

recite1594

repeat1609

texture1611

recitation1614

rendera1616

prospect1625

recitement1646

tell1743

diegesis1829

récit1915

narrative line1953

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxviii. 364/2 A peece of ancient Saxon coine of siluer, inscribed with his name, Anlaf Cynyne [sic], which for the antiquity of the thing, and honour of the man, we haue here imprinted, & placed though in the texture of our English Saxon Kings.

3. The character of a textile fabric, as to its being fine, coarse, close, loose, plain, twilled, ribbed, diapered, etc., resulting from the way in which it is woven.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > character of

texture1685

1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 79 in Ess. Effects Motion The texture that belongs to Linen.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. i. 556 Putting off his vest Of softest texture.

1842 in Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 176 One piece of cloth of German wool, and another piece of South Down wool..made of the same colour and texture.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 573 The linen worn by the wealthier classes differed materially in its texture.

4. In extended use: The constitution, structure, or substance of anything with regard to its constituents or formative elements.

a. Of organic bodies and their parts.

ΚΠ

1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F2^v The Leaves..of a Tree..are of a more solid Texture, and a more durable Nature than the Blossoms.

1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxxxix. ix Thou know'st the Texture of my Heart, My Reins, and every vital Part.

1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) ix. 211 The cartilage is smooth and thin, and very soft in its texture.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 905 Butter assumes a texture according as it has been treated.

1882 Garden 18 Mar. 182/3 Flavour and texture should be our watchword in raising Apples.

b. Of inorganic substances, as stones, soil, etc.: Physical (not chemical) constitution; the structure or minute moulding (of a surface).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > [noun] > texture

grain1579

contexturea1639

texture1660

context1706

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 165 Air is..endow'd with an Elastical power that probably proceeds from its Texture.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xiii. 242 Glass acquires a more or lesse brittle Texture, according as..it is baked.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §106 The stone..in point of hardness and texture much like the Bath stone.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. Introd. p. xxii Mr. Kirwan has justly observed the inaccuracy of Werner and his disciples, who have confounded the texture with the fracture.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. i. 5 Some lands of good apparent texture are yet sterile in a high degree.

1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. viii. 220 Gneiss is too various in its texture and the rate of its decomposition.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 63 The loose texture of snow.

5. figurative. Of immaterial things: Constitution; nature or quality, as resulting from composition. Of the mind: Disposition, as ‘woven’ of various qualities; temperament, character. Also, in Literary Criticism: the constitution or quality of a piece of writing; esp. such perceptible qualities as the imagery, alliteration, assonance, rhythm, etc. (frequently opposed to structure). In Music: the quality of sound formed by the combination of the different (orchestral, vocal, etc.) parts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun]

birtha1250

the manner ofc1300

formc1310

propertyc1390

naturea1393

condition1393

qualitya1398

temperc1400

taragec1407

naturality?a1425

profession?a1439

affecta1460

temperament1471

essence?1533

affection1534

spirit?1534

temperature1539

natural spirit1541

character1577

complexion1589

tincture1590

idiom1596

qualification1602

texture1611

connativea1618

thread1632

genius1639

complexure1648

quale1654

indoles1672

suchness1674

staminaa1676

trim1707

tenor1725

colouring1735

tint1760

type1843

aura1859

thusness1883

physis1923

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > specifically of something immaterial

texture1611

enginery1744

machinery1758

fabric1823

structuration1925

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > texture of a work

texture1812

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > timbre or quality > texture

texture1934

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xix. 223/1 Albeit the very texture of this Epistle, carieth with it the true Character of Antiquity.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 157 Hence it is that..the texture of Zeuxes or Apelles inclines him to the invention or improving of Painting.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 7 An argument..of so frail and brittle a texture.

1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 237 Had her thoughts..been of a more tender texture.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Misc. Ess. 161/1 The whole texture of the fable.

1812 J. Mackintosh in Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) II. iii. 215 This is increased when a few bolder and higher words are happily wrought into the texture of this familiar eloquence.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. ii. 68 Creeds of wondrous texture.

1895 W. D. Howells My Lit. Passions xxxi. 223 All that Mr. De Forest has written is of a texture and color distinctly his own.

1931 Week-End Rev. 3 Jan. 24/2 The texture of the book is much more satisfactory than its theme.

1934 M. Bodkin Archetypal Patterns in Poetry 320 This duality in unity, and harmonized clash, of cosmic and personal that Blake has woven into the texture of his verses.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 165 The first symphony [of Borodin]..achieves an admirable symphonic texture.

1941 J. C. Ransom New Crit. iv. 280 The texture, likewise, seems to be of any real content that may be come upon, provided it is so free, unrestricted, and large that it cannot properly get into the structure. One guesses that it is an order of content, rather than a kind of content, that distinguishes texture from structure, and poetry from prose.

1956 M. Krieger New Apologists for Poetry v. 83 The indeterminacies of meaning, into which the poet is forced by his devotion to the determinate sound, constitute the poem's texture [according to J. C. Ransom].

1956–7 Modern Fiction Studies Winter 209 The birth of Lena's child means more in the texture of the story than a simple event.

1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1034/1 For a long time now it has been fashionable to cry after new ‘textures’ in sound.

1963 Listener 21 Feb. 354/1 In his last decade as an opera composer Handel..made less use of wind instruments and tended to favour sparser textures.

1980 Dædalus Spring 194 The thinning of texture, and the descending succession of pitches in measures 100 to 103 of Berlioz's melody all seem to foster and presage closure.

6. In the fine arts: The representation of the structure and minute moulding of a surface (esp. of the skin), as distinct from its colour: cf. 4b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > relief and texture > [noun] > appearance or representation of texture

texture1845

texturing1882

tactile value1896

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles

pastositya1806

touchiness1813

scene painting1834

horror vacui1845

texture1845

daguerreotypism1846

fruitiness1869

tintiness1886

posterishness1930

painterliness1950

non-figuration1955

simultaneity1957

hard-edge1961

figuration1962

colourfield1967

1845 Punch 7 June 247/1 The following terms..may be used pretty much at random: ‘Chiaroscuro’, ‘texture’, ‘pearly greys’, ‘foxy browns’.

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 228 Impasting gives ‘texture’ and ‘surface’.

1877 J. Morley Robespierre in Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 64 It is transparent and smooth, but there is none of that quality which the critics of painting call Texture.

Compounds

texture brick n. a roughened or rough-hewn brick.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > brick made in specific way

semi-brick1601

place brick1621

clinker1659

rubbed brick1663

rubber1744

marl1812

bat1816

burr1823

wire-cut brick1839

place1843

wire-cut1910

rug brick1914

texture brick1940

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 843/1 Texture brick, a rustic brick.

1961 P. White Riders in Chariot iii. viii. 231 Rosetrees lived..in a texture-brick home—city water, no sewerage, but their own septic.

texture-counter n. a thread-counter or waling-glass: see quot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass > types of

reading glass1668

megaloscopec1775

hand lens1839

watch-maker's glass1875

waling glass1880

loupe1909

texture-counter1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Texture-counter, a small magnifying-glass of low power, used in counting the number of threads, within a given space, in the texture of a fabric.

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单词	texture
释义	texturen. /ˈtɛkstjʊə/ Etymology: < Latin textūra a weaving: see text n.¹ and -ure suffix¹. So French texture (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.). †1. a. The process or art of weaving. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving webbinga1325 weaving1377 texture1447 endrapering1461 loom-work1598 contexture1649 textury1658 loom1678 woof1700 weavering1720 tissue1850 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 145 Mynerve hyr self wych hath the sovereynte Of gay texture, as declayryth Ovyde. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 256 Coats of skinnes..a naturall habit.. before the invention of Texture . View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Texture,..a weaving. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 87 Pallas taught the texture of the loom. †b. figurative. The fabricating, machinating, or composing of schemes, conspiracies, writings, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] compassinga1300 contrivingc1330 undermining1433 imagininga1449 engininga1450 practising?1545 machinationc1550 packing1587 plotting1593 contrival1602 managing1607 tamperinga1627 practicking1640 texturea1641 contrivance1647 briguing1657 intrigue1668 intriguing1801 policizing1809 scheming1813 intriguery1815 schemery1822 plottery1823 shenanigan1855 game playing1916 shenaniganning1924 wheeler-dealing1968 wheeling and dealing1969 wheeling-dealing1973 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iv. 275 First they began their malicious texture with secret whisperings, and giving out in corners. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xciv. 247 The exquisite diligence used in the texture of those his Eternal Labours. 2. a. The produce of the weaver's art; a woven fabric; a web; cloth. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven webOE webOE wefta1398 stuff1462 tissue1565 weave1581 contexture1603 textile1626 texturea1656 woof1674 webbing1739 fabric1753 mail net1875 a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 260 The invaluable sumptuousness of the Temple..the curious celatures, and artificial textures. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 32 Others..far in the grassy Dale Their humble Texture weave. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 28 When the dyer dyes A texture, can the red dye prime the white? b. transferred. Any natural structure having an appearance or consistence as if woven; a tissue; a web, e.g. of a spider. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [noun] > network of texture1578 plexus1666 plexure1672 weaving1739 chiasma1839 incruciation1855 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web webOE netOE cobweb1323 lop-webc1400 wevet1499 attercop1530 spider-web1535 caul1548 mouseweb1556 spider coba1571 twail1608 spider's cloth1638 cockweba1642 texturea1774 worm-web1822 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 56 The notable texture of Mesenterium. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 499 That phlegme..which distilleth out of that texture or web into the ventricles. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 525 That the spirits are attenuated in the textures of the small arteries, & in the strayghtes of those passages. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 111 Nor the spider entangle the heedless fly in his texture. 1877 J. Tyndall in Daily News 2 Oct. 2/4 His physical and intellectual textures have been woven for him during his passage through phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past. †c. A ‘woven’ or composed narrative or story. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account talec1200 historyc1230 sawc1320 tellinga1325 treatisec1374 chroniclec1380 process?1387 legendc1390 prosec1390 pistlec1395 treatc1400 relationc1425 rehearsal?a1439 report?a1439 narrationc1449 recorda1450 count1477 redec1480 story1489 recount1490 deductiona1532 repetition1533 narrative1539 discourse1546 account1561 recital1561 enarrative1575 legendary1577 enarration1592 recite1594 repeat1609 texture1611 recitation1614 rendera1616 prospect1625 recitement1646 tell1743 diegesis1829 récit1915 narrative line1953 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxviii. 364/2 A peece of ancient Saxon coine of siluer, inscribed with his name, Anlaf Cynyne [sic], which for the antiquity of the thing, and honour of the man, we haue here imprinted, & placed though in the texture of our English Saxon Kings. 3. The character of a textile fabric, as to its being fine, coarse, close, loose, plain, twilled, ribbed, diapered, etc., resulting from the way in which it is woven. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > character of texture1685 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 79 in Ess. Effects Motion The texture that belongs to Linen. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. i. 556 Putting off his vest Of softest texture. 1842 in Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 176 One piece of cloth of German wool, and another piece of South Down wool..made of the same colour and texture. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 573 The linen worn by the wealthier classes differed materially in its texture. 4. In extended use: The constitution, structure, or substance of anything with regard to its constituents or formative elements. a. Of organic bodies and their parts. ΚΠ 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F2^v The Leaves..of a Tree..are of a more solid Texture, and a more durable Nature than the Blossoms. 1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxxxix. ix Thou know'st the Texture of my Heart, My Reins, and every vital Part. 1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) ix. 211 The cartilage is smooth and thin, and very soft in its texture. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 905 Butter assumes a texture according as it has been treated. 1882 Garden 18 Mar. 182/3 Flavour and texture should be our watchword in raising Apples. b. Of inorganic substances, as stones, soil, etc.: Physical (not chemical) constitution; the structure or minute moulding (of a surface). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > [noun] > texture grain1579 contexturea1639 texture1660 context1706 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 165 Air is..endow'd with an Elastical power that probably proceeds from its Texture. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xiii. 242 Glass acquires a more or lesse brittle Texture, according as..it is baked. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §106 The stone..in point of hardness and texture much like the Bath stone. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. Introd. p. xxii Mr. Kirwan has justly observed the inaccuracy of Werner and his disciples, who have confounded the texture with the fracture. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. i. 5 Some lands of good apparent texture are yet sterile in a high degree. 1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. viii. 220 Gneiss is too various in its texture and the rate of its decomposition. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 63 The loose texture of snow. 5. figurative. Of immaterial things: Constitution; nature or quality, as resulting from composition. Of the mind: Disposition, as ‘woven’ of various qualities; temperament, character. Also, in Literary Criticism: the constitution or quality of a piece of writing; esp. such perceptible qualities as the imagery, alliteration, assonance, rhythm, etc. (frequently opposed to structure). In Music: the quality of sound formed by the combination of the different (orchestral, vocal, etc.) parts. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] birtha1250 the manner ofc1300 formc1310 propertyc1390 naturea1393 condition1393 qualitya1398 temperc1400 taragec1407 naturality?a1425 profession?a1439 affecta1460 temperament1471 essence?1533 affection1534 spirit?1534 temperature1539 natural spirit1541 character1577 complexion1589 tincture1590 idiom1596 qualification1602 texture1611 connativea1618 thread1632 genius1639 complexure1648 quale1654 indoles1672 suchness1674 staminaa1676 trim1707 tenor1725 colouring1735 tint1760 type1843 aura1859 thusness1883 physis1923 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > specifically of something immaterial texture1611 enginery1744 machinery1758 fabric1823 structuration1925 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > texture of a work texture1812 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > timbre or quality > texture texture1934 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xix. 223/1 Albeit the very texture of this Epistle, carieth with it the true Character of Antiquity. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 157 Hence it is that..the texture of Zeuxes or Apelles inclines him to the invention or improving of Painting. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 7 An argument..of so frail and brittle a texture. 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 237 Had her thoughts..been of a more tender texture. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Misc. Ess. 161/1 The whole texture of the fable. 1812 J. Mackintosh in Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) II. iii. 215 This is increased when a few bolder and higher words are happily wrought into the texture of this familiar eloquence. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. ii. 68 Creeds of wondrous texture. 1895 W. D. Howells My Lit. Passions xxxi. 223 All that Mr. De Forest has written is of a texture and color distinctly his own. 1931 Week-End Rev. 3 Jan. 24/2 The texture of the book is much more satisfactory than its theme. 1934 M. Bodkin Archetypal Patterns in Poetry 320 This duality in unity, and harmonized clash, of cosmic and personal that Blake has woven into the texture of his verses. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 165 The first symphony [of Borodin]..achieves an admirable symphonic texture. 1941 J. C. Ransom New Crit. iv. 280 The texture, likewise, seems to be of any real content that may be come upon, provided it is so free, unrestricted, and large that it cannot properly get into the structure. One guesses that it is an order of content, rather than a kind of content, that distinguishes texture from structure, and poetry from prose. 1956 M. Krieger New Apologists for Poetry v. 83 The indeterminacies of meaning, into which the poet is forced by his devotion to the determinate sound, constitute the poem's texture [according to J. C. Ransom]. 1956–7 Modern Fiction Studies Winter 209 The birth of Lena's child means more in the texture of the story than a simple event. 1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1034/1 For a long time now it has been fashionable to cry after new ‘textures’ in sound. 1963 Listener 21 Feb. 354/1 In his last decade as an opera composer Handel..made less use of wind instruments and tended to favour sparser textures. 1980 Dædalus Spring 194 The thinning of texture, and the descending succession of pitches in measures 100 to 103 of Berlioz's melody all seem to foster and presage closure. 6. In the fine arts: The representation of the structure and minute moulding of a surface (esp. of the skin), as distinct from its colour: cf. 4b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > relief and texture > [noun] > appearance or representation of texture texture1845 texturing1882 tactile value1896 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles pastositya1806 touchiness1813 scene painting1834 horror vacui1845 texture1845 daguerreotypism1846 fruitiness1869 tintiness1886 posterishness1930 painterliness1950 non-figuration1955 simultaneity1957 hard-edge1961 figuration1962 colourfield1967 1845 Punch 7 June 247/1 The following terms..may be used pretty much at random: ‘Chiaroscuro’, ‘texture’, ‘pearly greys’, ‘foxy browns’. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 228 Impasting gives ‘texture’ and ‘surface’. 1877 J. Morley Robespierre in Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 64 It is transparent and smooth, but there is none of that quality which the critics of painting call Texture. Compounds texture brick n. a roughened or rough-hewn brick. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > brick made in specific way semi-brick1601 place brick1621 clinker1659 rubbed brick1663 rubber1744 marl1812 bat1816 burr1823 wire-cut brick1839 place1843 wire-cut1910 rug brick1914 texture brick1940 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 843/1 Texture brick, a rustic brick. 1961 P. White Riders in Chariot iii. viii. 231 Rosetrees lived..in a texture-brick home—city water, no sewerage, but their own septic. texture-counter n. a thread-counter or waling-glass: see quot. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass > types of reading glass1668 megaloscopec1775 hand lens1839 watch-maker's glass1875 waling glass1880 loupe1909 texture-counter1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Texture-counter, a small magnifying-glass of low power, used in counting the number of threads, within a given space, in the texture of a fabric. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † texturev. Etymology: < texture n. Obsolete. transitive. To construct by or as by weaving; to give a texture to (anything). Usually in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > in other specific ways sprengec1300 weavec1420 unwomb1594 coagulate1633 texture1694 to strike out1720 to strike out1735 transcreatea1834 peel1885 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 104 Now it is certain..that Matter is alter'd, figured, textur'd, and infinite ways wrought upon and moulded by means of motion. 1774 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 13 Sept. (1778) The off-horse treads that which is textured, and destroys the effect. 1775 R. Jephson Braganza iii. i. 31 This fine frame, Nerves exquisitely textur'd. 1835 T. Carlyle Corr. (1883) I. vii. 65 A bright faultless vision textured out of mere sunbeams. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1447v.1694
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