Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
- adjective Painted on or applied to a wall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a wall.
- Placed on a wall; of plants, trained on a wall.
- Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep: as, a mural structure or formation.
- In pathology, noting vesical calculi when rugous and covered with tubercles. Such calculi are composed of oxalate of lime, and are also called
mulberry calculi . - noun A wall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall.
- adjective Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
- adjective (Astron.) a graduated circle, in the plane of the meridian, attached permanently to a perpendicular wall; -- used for measuring arcs of the meridian. See
Circle , n., 3. - adjective (Rom. Antiq.) a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
painting , usually drawn on a wall. - adjective Of or relating to a
wall ; on, or in, or against a wall. - adjective Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a painting that is applied to a wall surface
- adjective of or relating to walls
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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That and the absence of text tells me that the mural is art, not an advertisement, because it is a picture of fish, not of the gear used to catch fish.
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That and the absence of text tells me that the mural is art, not an advertisement, because it is a picture of fish, not of the gear used to catch fish.
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One of the focal points of the mural is a brown-skinned man clasping the hands of a white-skinned woman.
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One of the focal points of the mural is a brown-skinned man clasping the hands of a white-skinned woman.
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Notice that the pre-conquest portion of the mural is almost always done in live, vibrant color.
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His essay strongly underscores how the mural is an excellent representation of the essence of Chicanismo.
Turistas 2002
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WHAT IM SEEING Dot Com has pictures up of a superhero/super villain mural being created in San Francisco's Mission District.
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That wall mural is really awesome, I might have to steal that idea.
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A Tomahawk missile launch toward the Vietnam and Persian Gulf side of the mural is symbolic of the refitting of the battleship with modern weapons in the mid-1980s.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Increasingly here in Mexico's capital, the graffiti mural is coming to represent what some local experts feel is a new movement in mural art in the great tradition of early 20th century Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros.
Graffiti: the Estadio Azteca and Mexico City's new wave muralists 2009
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