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• Decorative tilework typically takes the form of mosaic upon the walls, floor, or ceiling of a building.From the entry tilework
• One particular valuable is a gemstone mosaic.From the entry valuable
• A Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.From the entry pietra dura
• It is not possible to improve the policy of MacDonald by mosaic corrections.2013, Leon Trotsky, Where is Britain Going?. From the entry macdonaldite
• Orthophotos or orthophoto mosaics enhanced by additional symbolized, planimetric information are called orthophoto plans.2012, T. J. Blachut, A. Chrzanowski, J. H. Saastamoinen, Urban Surveying and Mapping, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry orthophoto
• Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 446. From the entry figured
• Next the mosaic is bluelined onto scribe coat and a manual selection of the data is made.1986, Proceedings, 1st Biennial Canadian Hydrographic Conference 16, 17, & 18 April 1985. From the entry blueline
• Mosaics are employed for the mapping of large areas of what is often cloud ridden terrain.1985, Paul J. Curran, Principles of Remote Sensing, London: Longman, Section 4.4.6, p. 126. From the entry cloud-ridden
• A black swarf packed with small parts in a greasy mosaic.1979 May, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, New York, N.Y.: Random House; republished as Suttree (Vintage Contemporaries), 1st Vintage…. From the entry swarf
• There was a big black wrought-iron double bed, with a mosaic in the centre of the bedhead.1977, Edna O'Brien, Johnny I Hardly Knew You, Penguin, published 1984, page 82. From the entry bedhead
• She crossed the mosaic of the terrace's paving and entered the peristylium.1964, LeGette Blythe, Man on Fire, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 343. From the entry peristylium
• Consider Raphael's Donna Velata, the Ravennese mosaic of Justinian and His Court, and Picasso's still-life The Pigeon.1930, Helen Knight, “Sense-form in pictorial art”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. From the entry Ravennese
• Alpine meadows, primarily composed of Sichuan kobresia (Kobresia setchwanensis) made up a smaller proportion of the tree-line mosaic.2016 January 20, “Effects of Supplementary Feeding on the Breeding Ecology of the Buff-Throated Partridge in a Tibetan Sacred Site…. From the entry kobresia
• The hammams or Turkish saunas, decorated most un-Islamically with erotic mosaics, paintings, or statues, were a meeting point for many homosexuals.2010 September 30, Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, →ISBN. From the entry un-Islamically
• The view he’s looking at is a mosaic of images shot no more than a few hours ago.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 250. From the entry geosynchronous
• RNA replaces DNA as the genetic material in many viruses (for example, tobacco mosaic, influenza, polio, certain RNA phages).1992, James D. Watson and others, Recombinant DNA, second edition, Scientific American Books, page 64. From the entry tobacco mosaic
• The data on these documents are qualified, reduced to chart scale and mosaicked together on the chart base.1986, Proceedings, 1st Biennial Canadian Hydrographic Conference 16, 17, & 18 April 1985. From the entry blueline
• A study on the insect transmission and vector-virus relationship of pumpkin mosaic virus (PMV) was conducted at the College of Agriculture.1986, Indian Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology - Volume 16, page 95. From the entry PMV
• Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 20. From the entry suppliant
• If they were important objects, we would expect to also discover contextual evidence in the archaeological record, such as depictions in paintings or mosaics.2024 May 9, Samantha Tipper, “Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecahedron?”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry dodecahedron
• Thus, cats with a mosaic coat of both orange and nonorange (Oo) must have two X chromosomes, which means tortoiseshell cats are almost always female.2021, Lowell Ackerman, Pet-Specific Care for the Veterinary Team, page 238. From the entry nonorange
• Collins seemed enamoured of a Trudeau-esque vision of Canada as a model for the internationalizing world, a civic-minded mosaic of multiple identities unencumbered by regulation.2011, Marusya Bociurkiw, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect. From the entry Trudeau-esque
• In a fittingly modern use of mosaic tile, Tord Boontje pixelates his signature floral designs in a new collection of storage furniture for Bisazza Home.2009 August 19, Andreas Kokkino, “Best in Show”, in New York Times. From the entry pixelate
• Some might argue that Yugoslavia, as a mosaic of southern Slavs and other assorted Balkan peoples, ranked higher on the multiethnicity scale than Slovenia.1996, Richard Henri Ullman, The World and Yugoslavia's Wars. From the entry multiethnicity
• The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog.1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341. From the entry kolk
• Mosaic of Olympus Mons on Mars.1983, Louis Berman, John C. Evans, Exploring the Cosmos, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry supervolcano
• These two structures are generally uncommon in the rocks under study, but some calcite mosaics resembling stromatactis and birdeyes are observed in the biomicrites.1970, Bulletin of the Oil & Natural Gas Commission, volumes 7-9, page 85. From the entry birdeye
• Leafroll is caused by a single virus, while most of the mosaic diseases are caused by one of the X, Y or A virusses.1958, Science Bulletin - Republic of South Africa. Department of Agricultural Technical Services, page 21. From the entry virusses
• This species is large compared with known Eocene alligatorids, although its character states present a mosaic of resemblances to earlier and later alligatorids.1956, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, volume 31, page 554. From the entry alligatorid
• As is the case with tobacco mosaic, the disease has been successfully transmitted by inoculating healthy plants with juice pressed out of diseased plants.1920, Journal of agricultural research, volume 19, page 131. From the entry tobacco mosaic
• In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime. From the entry encompass
• When you finally find the “hot” baitfish pattern, all too often, a large fish will chew it to a Pollackesque mosaic of marabou, tinsel, and Flashabou.2010, Jeff Morgan, Productive Trout Flies for Unorthodox Prey: Ecology & Imitation, page 33. From the entry Pollackesque
• The pistoles disperse randomly through the dough, so that slicing the logs into cookies creates an attractive mosaic, with little spokes of chocolate scattered here and there.2008, Flo Braker, “Say It with Cookies”, in Baking for All Occasions: A Treasury of Recipes for Everyday Celebrations, Chronicle Books…. From the entry pistole
• Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery. From the entry amber
• Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton…. From the entry stucco
• The only essentiel difference is in the degree of plasticism : the mosaic architecture is rather flat and two-dimensional while the architecture of the miniature introduces chiaroscuro.1973, Agostino Pertusi, Venezia E Il Levante Fino Al Secolo XV - Volume 2, page 288. From the entry plasticism
• Mosaic gold, generally a compound of tin, 64.63 parts, and sulphur, 35.37 parts, is odorless and tasteless, and dissolves only in chlorine solution, aqua regia, and boiling potash lye.1939, Gardner Dexter Hiscox, Fortunes in formulas, for home, farm, and workshop, page 140. From the entry mosaic gold
• The various branches he developed were earthenware and ordinary soft porcelain, hard porcelain, parian, coloured and enamelled tiles, mosaics, Della Robbia ware, majolica, and Palissy ware.1904, Arthur Hayden, Chats on English China, New York, page 184. From the entry majolica
• In addition, the green ventilation ducts which emerge at two points in the wall had to be cut into the mosaic, as it had not been possible to prelocate them.1987, Deanna Petherbridge, Art for architecture: a handbook on commissioning, page 39. From the entry prelocate

Meaning of mosaic

1. noun A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
2. noun Pixelization. (a method of censorship).
3. noun An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.

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How do you use mosaic in a sentence?

Mosaic is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Decorative tilework typically takes the form of mosaic upon the walls, floor, or ceiling of a building.”

What is a short sentence with mosaic?

“Mosaic of Olympus Mons on Mars.”

What does mosaic mean?

Mosaic means a piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.