Sculpt
verb
To create or shape a figure or design by cutting or carving a hard material like stone or wood.
She sculpted a beautiful statue from marble.
Often appears as...
- sculpt a statue
- sculpt out of
verb
To create something by a process of careful, precise changes, especially in a person's body or figures by physical exercises.
He spent hours in the gym trying to sculpt his body.
Often appears as...
- sculpt the body
- sculpt muscles
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Approving
verb
To create or shape a figure or design by cutting or carving a hard material like stone or wood.
She sculpted a beautiful statue from marble.
Often appears as...
- sculpt a statue
- sculpt out of
verb
To create something by a process of careful, precise changes, especially in a person's body or figures by physical exercises.
He spent hours in the gym trying to sculpt his body.
Often appears as...
- sculpt the body
- sculpt muscles
Usage tips
Approving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Creation
Often used for describing artistic activities related to creating sculptures.
The artist sculpted figures that evoke deep emotions.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Can be used metaphorically to suggest shaping or forming carefully.
The novelist sculpted the plot with great detail.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Process
Implies a physical, labor-intensive process involving one's hands and tools.
She spent days sculpting the delicate features of the statue.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Creation
Often used for describing artistic activities related to creating sculptures.
The artist sculpted figures that evoke deep emotions.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Can be used metaphorically to suggest shaping or forming carefully.
The novelist sculpted the plot with great detail.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Process
Implies a physical, labor-intensive process involving one's hands and tools.
She spent days sculpting the delicate features of the statue.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Creation
Often used for describing artistic activities related to creating sculptures.
The artist sculpted figures that evoke deep emotions.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Can be used metaphorically to suggest shaping or forming carefully.
The novelist sculpted the plot with great detail.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Process
Implies a physical, labor-intensive process involving one's hands and tools.
She spent days sculpting the delicate features of the statue.
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Can you solve the...
and you're afraid that if your forgetfulness becomes known, you'll become part of the feast. The baker has meticulously prepared a small mountain range of a cake, and your job is to sculpt the giant’s age as the chocolate centerpiece. You would love to just count the candles on the cake, but you're much too small to see the top of it.
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Michael Hansmeyer:...
We can begin to sculpt the form. And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints. So that means that surfaces can intersect themselves, they can become impossibly small. We can make folds that we otherwise could not make. Surfaces can become porous.
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Meet the dazzling flying...
the impact of nascent technology. And for folks like us, the real reward is the journey and the act of creation. It's a continual reminder of how wonderful and magical the universe we live in is, that it allows creative, clever creatures to sculpt it in such spectacular ways.
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The biology of our best...
And thus, adolescence and early adulthood are the years where environment and experience sculpt your frontal cortex into the version you're going to have as an adult in that critical moment. But pushing back even further, even further back to childhood and fetal life
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Design and future...
resin but the real advances are taking place in industrial machines that have material or sculpt them away and they're printing everything from well jewelry all the way up to jet engine parts so these technologies augments three capabilities that are central to the
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Mind-blowing stage...
I call my work stage sculpture, but of course what's really being sculpted is the experience of the audience, and as directors and designers, we have to take responsibility for every minute that the audience spend with us. We're a bit like pilots
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Three ideas. Three...
It's more that I've got this ever-evolving language of hieroglyphics that I've developed and can understand fluently and think deeply with. but I struggle to translate. I can't paint, draw, sculpt, or even haberdash, and as for the written word,
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The incredible history...
workers and government officials, and various exotic animals, indicating that Emperor Qin had more plans for the afterlife than simply waging war. All the figurines are sculpted from terracotta, or baked earth, a type of reddish brown clay.
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Climbing China's...
these ancient cars formations have been sculpted by wind and water and millions of years of erosion into these beautiful natural sculptures as a rock climber you look at these rock formations and you can't help but be inspired for me it's
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Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
yakishima cedars like mighty pillars dominating the canopy the ancient cedars found on this island some of the most fascinating trees in the world they look as if they've been sculpted by
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Can you solve the...
and you're afraid that if your forgetfulness becomes known, you'll become part of the feast. The baker has meticulously prepared a small mountain range of a cake, and your job is to sculpt the giant’s age as the chocolate centerpiece. You would love to just count the candles on the cake, but you're much too small to see the top of it.
Video examples
Michael Hansmeyer:...
We can begin to sculpt the form. And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints. So that means that surfaces can intersect themselves, they can become impossibly small. We can make folds that we otherwise could not make. Surfaces can become porous.
Video examples
Meet the dazzling flying...
the impact of nascent technology. And for folks like us, the real reward is the journey and the act of creation. It's a continual reminder of how wonderful and magical the universe we live in is, that it allows creative, clever creatures to sculpt it in such spectacular ways.
Video examples
The biology of our best...
And thus, adolescence and early adulthood are the years where environment and experience sculpt your frontal cortex into the version you're going to have as an adult in that critical moment. But pushing back even further, even further back to childhood and fetal life
Video examples
Design and future...
resin but the real advances are taking place in industrial machines that have material or sculpt them away and they're printing everything from well jewelry all the way up to jet engine parts so these technologies augments three capabilities that are central to the
Video examples
Mind-blowing stage...
I call my work stage sculpture, but of course what's really being sculpted is the experience of the audience, and as directors and designers, we have to take responsibility for every minute that the audience spend with us. We're a bit like pilots
Video examples
Three ideas. Three...
It's more that I've got this ever-evolving language of hieroglyphics that I've developed and can understand fluently and think deeply with. but I struggle to translate. I can't paint, draw, sculpt, or even haberdash, and as for the written word,
Video examples
The incredible history...
workers and government officials, and various exotic animals, indicating that Emperor Qin had more plans for the afterlife than simply waging war. All the figurines are sculpted from terracotta, or baked earth, a type of reddish brown clay.
Video examples
Climbing China's...
these ancient cars formations have been sculpted by wind and water and millions of years of erosion into these beautiful natural sculptures as a rock climber you look at these rock formations and you can't help but be inspired for me it's
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
yakishima cedars like mighty pillars dominating the canopy the ancient cedars found on this island some of the most fascinating trees in the world they look as if they've been sculpted by
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
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Dan Fogler
American Comedian
I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Pattie Maes
American Educator
I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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Channing Tatum
American Actor
With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
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Jonah Lehrer
American Author
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
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Gigi Hadid
American Model
Using the right colour is the most important thing. When sculpting is well done, it just looks like you have great brows.
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Rick Baker
American Inventor
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
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Bret Hart
Canadian Wrestler
I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.
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Alberto Giacometti
Swiss Sculptor
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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Larry Niven
American Writer
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.
Quote examples
Dan Fogler
American Comedian
I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
Quote examples
Pattie Maes
American Educator
I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
Quote examples
Channing Tatum
American Actor
With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
Quote examples
Jonah Lehrer
American Author
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Quote examples
Gigi Hadid
American Model
Using the right colour is the most important thing. When sculpting is well done, it just looks like you have great brows.
Quote examples
Rick Baker
American Inventor
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
Quote examples
Bret Hart
Canadian Wrestler
I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.
Quote examples
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss Sculptor
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
Quote examples
Larry Niven
American Writer
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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