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单词 volute
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Definition of volute in English:

volute

noun vəˈl(j)uːtvəˈl(j)ut
  • 1Architecture
    A spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The only other pieces close in date to it are two composite capitals (also from the mid-10th century) in the third room, one labeled ‘Corinthian’ for some reason, although Ionic volutes are just as prominent as acanthus leaves.
    • In the center of the screen is a gate topped by two scrolling volutes supporting an oval crest bearing the emblem of the Jesuits, IHS.
    • This circularity is echoed and enhanced by the razor-sharp curvilinear forms of apsidal niches, rounded arches, semicircular columns, Ionic volutes, decorative ovals, and turned balusters and kraters.
    • The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
    Synonyms
    loop, twist, turn, curl, hoop, roll, ring, twirl, gyre, whorl, scroll, curlicue, convolution
  • 2A deep-water marine mollusc with a thick colourful spiral shell which is prized by collectors.

    Family Volutidae, class Gastropoda: Voluta and other genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not uncommon for both Recent and fossil volutes from southern South America to have a protoconch that is corroded to various degrees by cold acidic waters.
adjective vəˈl(j)uːtvəˈl(j)ut
  • Forming a spiral curve or curves.

    a volute capital
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The incised design preserves the upper part of a representational scene that takes place beneath a pillared portico supported on either side by ornate lotus, papyrus, and volute capitals.

Derivatives

  • voluted

  • adjectivevəˈl(j)uːtɪdvəˈl(j)udəd
    • Executed like the voluted palmettes and tabletop inlays with incised details but no surface modeling, it represents the forepart of two winged lions with bull's horns flanking a voluted palmette.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A sphinx and a winged lion with bull's horns flanking a voluted palmette form a central focus, while the remaining groups proceed more or less in linear fashion toward them, starting at the opposite point on the bowl's circumference.
      • Likewise, the hybrid nature of their imagery, such as winged composite animals and voluted palmettes, has been taken as a lack of originality, a view that tends to stifle interest in iconographic meaning.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin voluta, feminine past participle of volvere 'to roll'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute
 
 

Definition of volute in US English:

volute

nounvəˈl(y)o͞otvəˈl(j)ut
  • 1Architecture
    A spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the center of the screen is a gate topped by two scrolling volutes supporting an oval crest bearing the emblem of the Jesuits, IHS.
    • This circularity is echoed and enhanced by the razor-sharp curvilinear forms of apsidal niches, rounded arches, semicircular columns, Ionic volutes, decorative ovals, and turned balusters and kraters.
    • The only other pieces close in date to it are two composite capitals (also from the mid-10th century) in the third room, one labeled ‘Corinthian’ for some reason, although Ionic volutes are just as prominent as acanthus leaves.
    • The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
    Synonyms
    loop, twist, turn, curl, hoop, roll, ring, twirl, gyre, whorl, scroll, curlicue, convolution
  • 2A deep-water marine mollusk with a thick spiral shell that is colorful and prized by collectors.

    Family Volutidae, class Gastropoda: Voluta and other genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is not uncommon for both Recent and fossil volutes from southern South America to have a protoconch that is corroded to various degrees by cold acidic waters.
adjectivevəˈl(y)o͞otvəˈl(j)ut
  • Forming a spiral curve or curves.

    spoked wheels with outside volute springs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The incised design preserves the upper part of a representational scene that takes place beneath a pillared portico supported on either side by ornate lotus, papyrus, and volute capitals.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin voluta, feminine past participle of volvere ‘to roll’.

 
 
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