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Visual vs Texture - What's the difference?

visual | texture |

As adjectives the difference between visual and texture

is that visual is related to or affecting the vision while texture is textured.

As a noun visual

is any element of something that depends on sight.

As a verb texture is

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visual

English

Alternative forms

* visuall (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Related to or affecting the vision.
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  • (obsolete) That can be seen; visible.
  • Derived terms

    * visual poem * visualization * visualize * visually

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any element of something that depends on sight.
  • An image; a picture; a graphic.
  • (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multi-media presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
  • (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
  • 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.
  • Verb

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