texture

Texture is the physical feel of something — smooth, rough, fuzzy, slimy, and lots of textures something in between.

Sandpaper is very rough — it has a gritty, rough texture. Other things, like linoleum, have a smooth texture. Texture has to do with how an object feels and it's ingredients. Texture is very important in clothes: a cotton shirt has a different texture than a polyester shirt. You can also talk about other kinds of texture, like musical texture. A symphony and a rock song have different instruments, so they have different textures.

Primary Meanings of texture

1.	n	the feel of a surface or a fabric
2.	n	the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together

Full Definitions of texture

n the feel of a surface or a fabric

“the wall had a smooth texture”

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a soft or fuzzy surface texture; smoothness
a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch; raggedness, roughness
a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven; silkiness, sleekness
the smooth feel of silk fabric; slick, slickness, slip, slipperiness
a slippery smoothness; fineness, powderiness
having a very fine texture; scaliness
the property of being scaly; coarseness, nubbiness, tweediness
looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth); burl, knot, slub
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design; abrasiveness, harshness, scratchiness
the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions; coarseness, graininess, granularity
the quality of being composed of relatively large particles; shagginess
roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs; bumpiness
the texture of a surface that has many bumps; bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness
the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines; burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish
the property of being smooth and shiny

Type of:: feel, tactile property
a property perceived by touch

n the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

“breadfruit has the same texture as bread”

“fish with a delicate flavor and texture”

Synonyms:: grain

Type of:: composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition
the way in which someone or something is composed

n the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality

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the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; marbleisation, marbleising, marbleization, marbleizing
a texture like that of marble; wood grain, woodgrain, woodiness
texture produced by the fibers in wood; graining, woodgraining
a texture like that of wood

Type of:: visual property
an attribute of vision

n the essential quality of something

“the texture of Neapolitan life”

Type of:: character, lineament, quality
a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

n the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together

“then another melodic line is added to the texture”