单词 | resculpting |
释义 | resculptingn. The provision of a new or altered form or shape; the action of resculpt v. Also: an instance of this. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1940 Chicago Sunday Tribune 7 Jan. g8/3 The career girl or housewife whose limberness is vanishing and whose silhouette reveals a crying need for resculpting, whether she be too thin or too fat. 1966 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 19 June (TV Week section) 10A/1 All manner of ideas for the re-sculpting of television in America to fit the image of the intellectuals. 1983 Representations Summer 96 The resculpting or remaking of the body that is seen by Hardy as inevitably entailed in work. 1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Oct. (Wheels section) 2 Half of that extra room is currently available..thanks to a resculpting of the back of the front seats last year. 2003 A. S. Miller Gaia Connections i. 17 Those of us who live in California have noticed the regular resculpting of the coastline in the past 30 years. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1940 |
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