Word Meanings - STATUETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.

Related words: (words related to STATUETTE)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• TERRAPIN
  Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin , native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also potter, slider, and redfender), and
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• STATUETTE
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• COTTAGE
  A small house; a cot; a hut. Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective
• TERRAS
  See
• BRONZE
  1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the
• TERRACE
  A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea. Note: Many rivers are bordered by a series of terraces at different levels, indicating the flood plains at successive periods in their history.
• DISTINGUISH
  di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CONTERRANEAN; CONTERRANEOUS
  Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• SUBTERRANE
  A cave or room under ground. J. Bryant.