texture

texture
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Surface characteristics
Nouns
1. texture, quality, fabric, surface, fiber, nap, tooth, tissue, weave, warp and woof, weft, grain, fineness or coarseness of grain; smoothness, roughness. See ornament.
2. substance, stuff, staple (see materials); mat, web[bing], braid, plait, trellis, mesh, lattice[work], tissue. See crossing. Verb — texture; braid, plait, etc.; coarsen, grain.
Adjectives — textured, textural, textile, woven; structural, anatomic[al], organic; coarse, grainy, coarse-grained, homespun; shaggy, nappy; fine, fine-grained; delicate, subtle, filmy, downy, gossamery, smooth.
Antonyms, see smoothness.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Quality]
Syn. character, disposition, surface, fineness, roughness, coarseness, feeling, feel, touch, sense, flexibility, stiffness, smoothness, weave, taste; see also fiber 2 .
2. [Structure]
Syn. composition, weave, organization, arrangement, balance, strategy, intermixture; see also construction 2 , form 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
surface quality, feel, character, composition, grade, smoothness, roughness, coarseness, weave, grain, nap, pile, woof, wale.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure: contexture, fabric, fiber, warp and woof, web. See BE. 2. A basic trait or set of traits that define and establish the character of something: being, essence, essentiality, nature, quintessence, substance. See SURFACE.

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