Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
- noun The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
- noun A composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial, photographs.
- noun Something that resembles a mosaic.
- noun Botany A viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
- noun An array of photosensitive elements in a video camera that react to light and are scanned by other components to compose an image.
- noun Biology An individual exhibiting mosaicism.
- transitive verb To make by mosaic.
- transitive verb To adorn with or as if with mosaic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To work up into a mosaic; represent in or decorate with mosaic patterns. Also
mosaick . - In biology, pertaining to or characterized by the presence of antagonistic or mutually exclusive parental characters in different parts of the body or of the germ-cells.
- noun In biology, an organism which has antagonistic or mutually exclusive parental characteristics in different parts of its body.
- Relating to Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver, or to the writings and institutions attributed to him.
- Made of small pieces inlaid to form a pattern; also, resembling such inlaid work.
- noun Mosaic work; inlaid work, especially in hard materials, as distinguished from inlays of wood, ivory, or the like.
- noun A piece of mosaic work: as, a Florentine mosaic; a Roman mosaic; a glass mosaic.
- noun Anything resembling a piece of mosaic work in composition.
- noun See the adjectives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
- adjective See under
Florentine . - adjective Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists
aurum musivum , oraurum mosaicum . Called alsobronze powder . - adjective See
Mosaic , n. - noun (Fine Arts) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also
mosaic work . - noun A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
- noun Something resembling a mosaic{1}; something made up of different pieces, fitted together by design to form a unified composition.
- noun An aerial photograph of a large area, made by carefully fitting together aerial photographs of smaller areas so that the edges match in location, and the whole provides a continuous image of the larger area. Called also mosaic map and
photomosaic . - noun A type of plant virus that causes green and yellow mottling of leaves of a plant. A much-studied type is the
tobacco mosaic virus , affecting the tobacco plant. - adjective Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. - noun genetics An
individual composed of two or morecell lines of differentgenetic orchromosomal constitution , but from the samezygote . - noun botany A
viral disease ofplants . - noun A
composite picture made fromoverlapping photographs . - adjective Containing
cells with ofvarying genetic constitution .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him
- noun viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
- noun a freeware browser
- noun arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
- noun transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
- noun art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- noun a pattern resembling a mosaic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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IE the mosaic is a bonus to having the Premium package with us and the ability to watch in 800k or 1. 2M is also a bonus.
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Canada as a "mosaic" is another term frequently used to describe us.
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The term mosaic would also be made to apply to the opus sectile (Vitruvius,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The8-tonne mosaic is held together by a framework of snap-out plastic parts reminiscentof those used in modelling kits.
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Credited to Mexican artist Diego Reviera, this original tile mosaic is on display in front of Muros.
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I'm doing a tile project and would like to write, in mosaic, the phases of the moon in Spanish around a panel.
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I'm doing a tile project and would like to write, in mosaic, the phases of the moon in Spanish around a panel.
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I'm doing a tile project and would like to write, in mosaic, the phases of the moon in Spanish around a panel.
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I'm doing a tile project and would like to write, in mosaic, the phases of the moon in Spanish around a panel.
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I'm doing a tile project and would like to write, in mosaic, the phases of the moon in Spanish around a panel.
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More commonly, iThenticate pointed to passages, often several paragraphs long, in which some words and phrases matched existing texts whereas others were reworded—so-called “mosaic plagiarism.”
tumbel commented on the word mosaic
as in "of or relating to Moses," not a design made of small pieces of stone or glass.
October 3, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word mosaic
That's a wonderful illustration, a.
January 5, 2011