different between sculpt vs hew
sculpt
English
Etymology
From French sculpter, from Latin sculp? (“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.
- What do you do?
Derived terms
- resculpt
Related terms
- sculptor
- sculpture
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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
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hew
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English hewen, from Old English h?awan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh?- (“to strike, hew, forge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hju?/, [çju?]
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: hue
Verb
hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewed or hewn)
- (transitive, intransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV Scene vii[1]:
- Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder […]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV Scene vii[1]:
- (transitive) To shape; to form.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.
- December 19, 1734, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- rather polishing old works than hewing out new
- (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
- 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,[2] Jennings & Graham, page 428
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
- 1998, Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines,[3] Collectors Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 103
- Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
- 2008, Chester E. Finn, Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik,[4] Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 28
- Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties, […] These hewed to the recommendations of the Plowden Report, […]
- King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
- 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,[2] Jennings & Graham, page 428
Derived terms
- behew
- forhew
- hewer
- rough-hew
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)
- (obsolete) hue; colour
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (obsolete) shape; form
- Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.
- (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down.
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- weh
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