TEXTURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does texture mean?
• TEXTURE (noun)
The noun TEXTURE has 4 senses:
1. the feel of a surface or a fabric
2. the essential quality of something
3. the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
4. the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
Familiarity information: TEXTURE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TEXTURE (noun)
Meaning:
The feel of a surface or a fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the wall had a smooth texture
Hypernyms ("texture" is a kind of...):
feel; tactile property (a property perceived by touch)
Attribute:
coarse; harsh (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)
fine (of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "texture"):
nap (a soft or fuzzy surface texture)
smoothness (a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch)
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Meaning:
The essential quality of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
the texture of Neapolitan life
Hypernyms ("texture" is a kind of...):
character; lineament; quality (a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something)
Meaning:
The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
then another melodic line is added to the texture
Hypernyms ("texture" is a kind of...):
musicality; musicalness (the property of sounding like music)
Meaning:
The characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("texture" is a kind of...):
visual property (an attribute of vision)
Domain category:
beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "texture"):
grain (the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric)
marbleisation; marbleising; marbleization; marbleizing (a texture like that of marble)
