| 单词 | collage |
| 释义 | collage (once / 11376 pages) n Have you ever cut out a bunch of pictures from magazines and pasted them together to make a big picture? If you have, you have made a collage. Collage came to English through French from the Greek word for glue, kolla, about 100 years ago. A collage is not only made from magazine pictures. In the world of fine art, it refers to a work made with various small objects sometimes with paint sometimes without. The word can also be used to mean a collection of different things. If it's very loud in your house, you might come home to a collage of sounds from the dog, the TV, your mom on the phone and your brother on the guitar. Years after you graduate, high school might just seem like a collage of memories. WORD FAMILYcollage: collages USAGE EXAMPLESIn lesser hands, that might add up to a distracting collage, but in Min’s and Day’s, the result is both dazzling and cohesive. Slate(Dec 30, 2016) People ask where I get my collage materials even though it’s all paint. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) He’s now got 82 people on the collage. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map Syn|Hypo|Hyper montage photomontage a montage that uses photographic images paste-up a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing icon, ikon, image, picturea visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface 2n any collection of diverse things a collage of memories Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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