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Texture vs Graining - What's the difference?

texture | graining |

As verbs the difference between texture and graining

is that texture is while graining is .

As an adjective texture

is textured.

As a noun graining is

the practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.

texture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
    • The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
  • (arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
    • The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture .
  • (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface,
  • (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • * Thomson
    • Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
    (Milton)
  • (biology, obsolete) A tissue.

    • Related terms

    * context * pretext * subtext * texel * texton * text * textual

    Verb

    (textur)
  • to create or apply a texture
    • ''Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.

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    graining

    English

    (wikipedia graining)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  • Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
    • (John Locke)
  • A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
  • (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
  • A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus vulgaris ); the dobule or dace.