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# sculpture

«sculpture» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of art made by shaping stone, wood, clay, metal…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sculpture, sculptures; uncountable sculpture); verb (sculpture — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sculpture is a piece of art made by shaping stone, wood, clay, metal or other material into a form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#m1)

2) Sculpture is the art of making such shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons children make sculptures from clay, recycled boxes or wire. In maths, sculptures are 3-D shapes (solid shapes). In everyday life, statues in parks are sculptures. Phrases: «a sculpture of», «ice sculpture», «sand sculpture».

### examples

- We made a clay sculpture of a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x1)
- The park has a sculpture of a famous poet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x2)
- She loves sculpture more than painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x3)
- They built an ice sculpture for the winter fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x4)
- The sculpture is made from old bike parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x5)
- Our sand sculpture was washed away by the tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x6)
- In sculpture Amphion is always represented with a lyre; Zethus with a club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/#x7)

### note

The artist is a sculptor (not a «sculpturer»). Sculpture is 3-D; a painting is flat (2-D). Do not confuse with «structure».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sculpture» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sculpture/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.