mosaic
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4.9
- noun
- /moʊˈzeɪɪk/
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mosaico
- Male drug smugglers also present a complex mosaic that belies facile stereotypes.
- habitat mosaic
- create a mosaic
- disturbance mosaic
When did you decide the movie would be a mosaic of these different men?
- When did you decide the movie would be a mosaic of these different men?
- It says luxe gold mosaic packaging inspired by ancient Greek art.
- Well, the world before globalization was a mosaic.
- So it becomes easy to just connect the dots and build that mosaic that is your content curations.
- And we have to celebrate that mosaic of male and female without harming the body.
- I find there's a huge mosaic on the wall of of your favorite Nintendo game.
- For me, though, it's a little bit kind of like playing with a really nice piece of mosaic and glass.
- The the more perspectives I can make room for, the more complexity, the more the world becomes a mosaic, right?
- For me, it was just lift off and I saw an entirely perfect geometric mosaic in light blue and white.
- All of those are part of this, this vast mosaic that that's going on.
Examples
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There, farms, villages, and small lumber operations form a mosaic with more undeveloped areas.
Academic text (1992) -
Through these events, more pieces of the mosaic of the past emerged from the haze of repression.
Academic text (1999) -
It's one component in a mosaic that leads to the overall image.
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Europe, therefore, developed into a mosaic of separate cultures and states.
Academic text (1999) -
Stanford is a mosaic of experiences, opportunities, and memories waiting to be made.
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People talk about an elaborate mosaic of interlocking local societies.
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Such a Europe would have remained a mosaic of warring tribes, undigested and unreconciled in their separate feeding camps.
Academic text (1999) -
Again, Bombay's mosaic of Christians, Parsi, Sikhs, all rocking and rolling.
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The party spilled down mosaic-floored halls on either side and up the stairs to the pillared balconies above.
Fiction book (2001) -
The artist created a stunning mosaic using tiny pieces of colored glass arranged to depict a beautiful landscape.
Synonyms
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2.8
A repeated design like shapes or flowers on cloth
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8.1
A pattern of shapes that fit together without gaps, like tiles or honeycombs
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3.4
An arrangement of tiles that covers a surface without gaps
A surface covered with tiles that forms a decorative pattern
A bright pattern of many different parts like tiles or cultures
Compounds
- Formal
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9.8
Religious rules God gave to the Israelites through Moses in the first five books of the Bible
- Specialized
A large image that shows a wide area by joining many photos taken from the air
- Specialized
A disease caused by a virus that makes potato leaves show pale and dark patches
- Specialized
A disease caused by a virus that makes plant leaves show yellow patches, often in tobacco plants
- Specialized
A virus that infects tobacco and other plants, making leaves show light and dark patches
How Patterned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mosaic comes from an old art word meaning 'of the Muses' and now also means any image made from many small parts. So when many photos or fields look like a picture of small tiles, we call that pattern a 'mosaic'.