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Allegory
noun · 78% connection
A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Anaglyph
noun · 78% connection
Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Atlantes
n. pl. · 78% connection
Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Bas-relief
noun · 78% connection
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Body
noun · 78% connection
A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Boot
noun · 78% connection
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Cavo-rilievo
noun · 78% connection
Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Crucifix
noun · 78% connection
A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Demi-rilievo
noun · 78% connection
Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Ectype
noun · 78% connection
A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Effigy
noun · 78% connection
The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to scul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Embossment
noun · 78% connection
A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative ef…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Figurant
n. masc. · 78% connection
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Firework
noun · 78% connection
A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Fretwork
noun · 78% connection
Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Graphotype
noun · 78% connection
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
Half
adverb · 78% connection
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: high, relief, sculptured, work, figures.
