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Sculpture vs Idol - What's the difference?

sculpture | idol |

As nouns the difference between sculpture and idol

is that sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor while idol is a graven or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

As a verb sculpture

is to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.

sculpture

English

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)
  • (uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
  • (countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
  • * Dryden
  • There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
  • Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
  • Verb

    (sculptur)
  • To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
  • To represent something in sculpture.
  • To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
  • idol

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • * 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :
  • There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
  • A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
  • Descendants

    * Japanese:

    Derived terms

    * idolatry * idolise, idolize

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