sculptor

noun
/ˈskʌlptɚ/US

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. Originally called Apparātus Scūlptoris, Latin for "sculptor's apparatus" but later shortened.

  1. borrowed from sculptor

Definitions

  1. A person who sculpts

    A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

    • The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
  2. A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and…

    A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sculptor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sculptor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at sculptor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA