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English
Etymology
From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).
Pronunciation
Verb
sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)
- (transitive) To form by sculpture.
They sculpted a statue out of clay.
- (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.
What do you do?
-I used to box, but now I sculpt.
- (transitive) To carve out gradually.
Landforms sculpted by the wind.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
sculpt (plural sculpts)
- (computer graphics) A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.
Further reading
- “sculpt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.