# texture
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɛkʃt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɛkstʃə(ɹ)

### Noun

texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)
* The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
    The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
* (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
    The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
* (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
** 2004, Will Smith, Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC (page 97)
    The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play.
* (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
** 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
* (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
** a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Of richest texture spread
* (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

#### Derived terms

* echotexture
* hypertexture
* intertexture
* macrotexture
* microtexture
* multitexture
* nanotexture
* open texture
* overspray surface texture
* retexture
* subtexture
* texturable
* textureless
* texture map
* texturewise
* texturisation
* texturise
* texturism
* texturist
* texturization
* texturize
* texturous

#### Related terms

* context
* pretext
* subtext
* texel
* text
* texton
* textual
* textural

#### Translations

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### Verb

texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)
* To create or apply a texture.
    Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “texture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “texture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛk.styʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

texture f (plural textures)
* texture

#### Related terms

* texte

### Further reading

* “texture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English texture.

### Noun

texture f (uncountable)
* texture

## Latin
### Participle

textūre
* vocative masculine singular of textūrus