Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchtexture, borrowed fromLatintextūra(“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), fromtextus, past participle oftexere(“to weave”). Seetext.Doublet oftessitura.
texture (countable anduncountable,pluraltextures)
- Thefeel orshape of asurface orsubstance; thesmoothness,roughness,softness, etc. of something.
The beans had a grainy, grittytexture in her mouth.
- (art) The quality given to awork of art by thecomposition andinteraction of its parts.
The piece of music had a mainly homophonictexture.
- (computer graphics) Animage 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.
- (obsolete) The act or art ofweaving.
1650,Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […],→OCLC:Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention oftexture, was something more unto Adam.
- (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
a.1749 (date written),James Thomson, “Spring”, inThe Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold byThomas Cadell, […], published1768,→OCLC:Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humbletexture weave.
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Of richesttexture spread
- (biology, obsolete) Atissue.
feel or shape of a surface or substance
- Arabic:مَلْمَس(malmas)
- Bulgarian:текстура f(tekstura)
- Catalan:textura (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:質地 /质地 (zh)(zhídì),材質 /材质 (zh)(cái zhì),質感 /质感 (zh)(zhìgǎn),肌理 (zh)(jīlǐ)(painting),紋理 /纹理 (zh)(wénlǐ)
- Czech:struktura povrchu f
- Danish:tekstur c
- Dutch:textuur (nl)
- Esperanto:teksturo,teksaranĝo
- Finnish:tuntu (fi),tuntuma (fi),rakenne (fi)
- French:texture (fr) f
- Galician:textura (gl) f
- German:Textur (de) f
- Hungarian:szövet (hu),tapintás (hu),tapintású (hu)
- Indonesian:tekstur (id)
- Latin:textūra f
- Māori:kakano
- Marathi:पोत m(pot)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:tekstur m
- Nynorsk:tekstur m
- Romanian:țesătură (ro) f,textură (ro) f
- Russian:строе́ние (ru) n(strojénije),структу́ра (ru) f(struktúra),тексту́ра (ru) f(tekstúra),ткань (ru) f(tkanʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic:dèanamh m
- Slovak:štruktúra povrchu f
- Spanish:textura (es) f
- Ukrainian:тексту́ра f(tekstúra)
- Welsh:gweadedd m
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art: quality produced by interaction of elements
computer graphics: image applied to a polygon
Translations to be checked
texture (third-person singular simple presenttextures,present participletexturing,simple past and past participletextured)
- Tocreate orapply a texture.
Drag the trowel through the plaster totexture the wall.
The floor here is invisible because the game's devs forgot totexture it.
texture (comparativemoretexture,superlativemosttexture)
- (slang) Having anintense texture; with a texture that causes a strong (often positive) reaction.
2022 April 4,@Unit_9078,Twitter[1], archived fromthe original on24 August 2025:I may suck at it, but when I get the nail polish *juuuust right* ¶ gosh, its just sotexture~ ¶ whaaaat? noo, Im totally not autistic and stimming with every comfortable texture I can
2022 August 24, Darkfalli, “Wellness Check - Chapter 13: Sinking Theseus's Ship”, inArchive Of Our Own[2], archived fromthe original on24 August 2025:I was hesitant about biting a piece of paper. "W-What if I get a papercut on my tongue?" ¶ "Flower, do you honestly think that the Compact uses paper that sophonts can injure themselves with?[…] Here let me show you." She ran my finger down the edge of one of the sheets and my brain kept telling me that it'd hurt and slice my finger open, but it never did. The edge was soft, smooth, and incapable of cutting. I kinda wanted to do it again. It was sooootexture.
2023 March 6, @lukakgae,Twitter[3], archived fromthe original on24 August 2025:i like doing my makeup but i hate how it makes my skin feels after omg its so...texture whats it called ¶ it just isnt smooth anymore omg FUCK U
2025 April 18, @lukakgae,Twitter[4] (reply to a drawing), archived fromthe original on24 August 2025:Augh... Your art style is sotexture it makes me stim
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:texture.
- “texture”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “texture”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchtexture, borrowed fromLatintextūra(“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), fromtextus, past participle oftexere(“to weave”). Seetext.
texture f (pluraltextures)
- texture
Borrowed fromEnglishtexture.
texture f (uncountable)
- texture
textūre
- vocativemasculinesingular oftextūrus
