The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal, The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials, creating figures or designs in three dimensions, verb_ create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material, shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it, To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure, transitive verb_ To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave, (Zo”l.) a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures, intransitive verb_ To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure, To represent in sculpture, To make sculptures or a sculpture

Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling, Easily influenced; impressionable, Able to change and adapt, especially by acquiring alternative pathways for sensory perception or motor skills. Used of the central nervous system, noun_ Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers, The art. of modeling or molding; sculpture, The commercial name for any one of a class of substances, such as celluloid or viscose, which are worked into shape for use by molding or pressing when in a plastic condition

a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied, the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale), verb_ Present participle of model, Alternative spelling of modeling.

a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied, The profession of someone who models clothes, The act or occupation of forming models, or of bringing objects or figures to a desired form; specifically, in the fine arts, the act of a sculptor in shaping his model for any piece of carving, or the art of shaping models; also, the bringing of surfaces of the carving itself into proper relief and modulated relation; in painting, etc., the rendering of the appearance of relief and of natural solidity and curvature, verb_ Present participle of model

A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling, The human body as opposed to the spirit, water soaked soil; soft wet earth,