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sculpt

/skʌlpt/

sculpt verb: to form by sculpture.

Verb

sculpt (third-person singular simple present sculpts, present participle sculpting, simple past and past participle sculpted)

  1. (transitive) To form by sculpture.
    • They sculpted a statue out of clay.
  2. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.
    • What do you do?
      -I used to box, but now I sculpt.
  3. (transitive) To carve out gradually.
    • Landforms sculpted by the wind.

Noun

sculpt (plural sculpts)

  1. A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

sculpt meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

sculpt in Urdu

مجسمہ بنانا, بت تراشی کرنا

sculpt in Bengali

ভাস্কর্য তৈরি করা, খোদাই করা

sculpt in Malayalam

model, carve, chisel
കൊത്തുപണി ചെയ്യുക, ശില്പവേല ചെയ്യുക, ചെതുക്കുക, ചിത്രം കൊത്തുക, രൂപം കൊത്തുക, രൂപം കൊത്തിയുണ്ടാക്കുക

sculpt in Kannada

ಕೆತ್ತನೆ ಮಾಡು, ಶಿಲ್ಪ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸು, ರೂವಾರಿಯಾಗಿರು

Examples of sculpt in a sentence

  • I'll be showing projects that focus on modeling, sculpting, texturing, and lighting.
  • I figure NeurodiversiME partly works by scraping and sculpting content, so a few micro-plagiarisms are appropriate.
  • Mark Zuckerberg sculpts his pharaonic Hawaii compound.

All 10 example sentences with sculpt

Forms of sculpt

Verb
third-person singular presentsculpts
present participlesculpting
past participlesculpted
pastsculpted
Noun
pluralsculpts

Past tense of sculpt: sculpted

Origin of sculpt

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

Words formed from sculpt

Questions about sculpt

What does sculpt mean?
Sculpt means to form by sculpture.
What is sculpt in Urdu?
Sculpt in Urdu is مجسمہ بنانا, بت تراشی کرنا. See Sculpt meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is sculpt?
Sculpt can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce sculpt?
Sculpt is pronounced /skʌlpt/.
What is the past tense of sculpt?
The past tense of sculpt is sculpted.

Words near sculpt in the dictionary

  1. sculping
  2. sculpins
  3. sculps
  4. sculpsit
  5. sculpsits
  6. sculpt
  7. sculptability
  8. sculptable
  9. sculpted
  10. sculpter
  11. sculptile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sculpt (page history and authors); sculpt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sculpt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sculpt (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sculpt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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