different between texture vs textural

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?kst??(?)/, /?t?k?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?kst??(?)

Noun

texture (countable and uncountable, plural textures)

1. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

2. (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.

3. (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.

4. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
5. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
   • 1730, James Thomson, Spring

     Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
6. (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

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Translations

Verb

texture (third-person singular simple present textures, present participle texturing, simple past and past participle textured)

1. To create or apply a texture.

   Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

Further reading

• texture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• texture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k.sty?/

Noun

texture f (plural textures)

1. texture

Related terms

• texte

Further reading

• “texture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

text?re

1. vocative masculine singular of text?rus

English

Etymology

texture +? -al

Adjective

textural (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to texture.

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?stu??al/, [t?e??s.t?u??al]

Adjective

textural (plural texturales)

1. textural