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词汇 mural
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Definition of mural in English:

mural

noun ˈmjʊər(ə)lˈmjʊrəl
  • A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.

    壁画;壁饰

    huge murals depicting Norse legends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has also executed murals in ceramic and glass tiles as well as on wall and ceilings.
    • About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
    • She spent much of her time in the school's hallways creating murals on the walls.
    • His murals aimed to convert the illiterate and heterogeneous masses to a realization of the miseries and futilities of war.
    • His work, often in the form of large murals, painted in situ, has a hard - edged, modern feel.
    • Throughout the twenties, his fame grew with a number of large murals depicting scenes from Mexican history.
    • The sixth gallery has a fine collection of Madhubani paintings put up on a mud wall as murals.
    • The walls of its entryway have murals depicting scenes honoring the Spanish and Mayan heritages.
    • A shaft of sunlight illuminates the room briefly, bringing the bright colours of the murals on the walls into sharp relief.
    • Traditional murals are painted directly onto the wall and so are not at all flexible.
    • His house became a treasure trove and even his attic walls were covered with murals which he created by candlelight.
    • This could include both structural and superficial changes, such as the wall murals and graffiti.
    • Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals.
    • Impossible to miss from the walls are the vast murals that adorn the sides of buildings in the Protestant and Catholic areas.
    • He repaired the old monastery church and adorned it with murals painted in the fresco technique typical of the time.
    • You can see some contemporary murals on the walls of the buildings behind.
    • In the late 1930s he also painted several murals under the auspices of the Federal Art Project.
    • Saturn is one of the so called Black Paintings - murals Goya painted on the walls of his home near Madrid.
    • Painting traditionally was done in tempera in the form of murals on temple walls as well as on cloth and paper.
    • Games have been painted on the playgrounds and murals on the walls.
adjective ˈmjʊər(ə)lˈmjʊrəl
  • 1attributive Relating to or resembling a wall.

    a mural escarpment

    垂直的断崖。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Italian mural decoration was an appropriate interest for someone who had been brought up in Florence and had achieved international fame excavating the wall decorations of Assyrian palaces.
    • Western classical mural columns were set on both sides of doors.
    • Carrà was born in Quargnento in 1881, at the age of twelve he left home to work as a mural decorator first at Valenza Po, and from 1895 in Milan.
    • A mural stairs leads to a series of small gardens also.
    • He was a signwriter and housepainter by trade, admiring William Morris and Walter Crane and specialising in mural decoration.
    • The practice of appropriating mural surfaces for esthetic purposes goes back, after all, in recent art history to the start of the 1940s.
    • Woven tapestry is one of the oldest and richest mural arts, and can be traced right back to the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Native North Americans.
  • 2Medicine
    attributive Relating to or occurring in the wall of a body cavity or blood vessel.

    〔医〕(与)体腔壁(有关)的;发生在体腔壁内的;(与)血管壁(有关)的;发生在血管壁内的

    mural thrombosis

    血管壁血栓形成。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The usual pattern of involvement is focal or diffuse plaques of thickened valvular or mural endocardium.
    • Additionally, mucinous cystadenocarcinomas often have papillary projections and mural nodules that may correlate with areas of malignancy.
    • The small intestine had a 1.7-cm, firm mural nodule with intact mucosa but showed infiltrative growth into the mesenteric fat.
    • Systemic thromboembolism is a common complication of cardiac mural thrombosis.
    • It also predisposes to thrombosis, leucocyte adhesion, and mural smooth muscle proliferation.

Derivatives

  • muralist

  • noun
    • They represent part of a conscious celebration of Mesoamerican aesthetics shared with the muralists and other artists working in post-revolutionary Mexico on a nationalist project.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The vitality, reliance on linear profile and formal gesture remind me quite strongly of Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and the graffiti artists of the 80s and 90s.
      • I left the San Francisco murals scene a few years later, tired of its supposedly socially-conscious artists backbiting and claim-jumping for grants, feeling that too many muralists only did artwork when a check arrived.
      • I have often heard artists credit their grandparents or parents who were potters or carvers, muralists or weavers, traditional healers, praise singers or storytellers.
      • My grandfather though, was a muralist in Ireland and he worked painting the saints and religious scenes in churches across the land.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus 'wall'. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th century) the sense 'placed or executed on a wall' arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th century).

Rhymes

crural, jural, neural, plural, rural

Definition of mural in US English:

mural

nounˈmyo͝orəlˈmjʊrəl
  • A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.

    壁画;壁饰

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This could include both structural and superficial changes, such as the wall murals and graffiti.
    • A shaft of sunlight illuminates the room briefly, bringing the bright colours of the murals on the walls into sharp relief.
    • His work, often in the form of large murals, painted in situ, has a hard - edged, modern feel.
    • He has also executed murals in ceramic and glass tiles as well as on wall and ceilings.
    • Painting traditionally was done in tempera in the form of murals on temple walls as well as on cloth and paper.
    • He repaired the old monastery church and adorned it with murals painted in the fresco technique typical of the time.
    • You can see some contemporary murals on the walls of the buildings behind.
    • The sixth gallery has a fine collection of Madhubani paintings put up on a mud wall as murals.
    • His house became a treasure trove and even his attic walls were covered with murals which he created by candlelight.
    • In the late 1930s he also painted several murals under the auspices of the Federal Art Project.
    • Traditional murals are painted directly onto the wall and so are not at all flexible.
    • His murals aimed to convert the illiterate and heterogeneous masses to a realization of the miseries and futilities of war.
    • Games have been painted on the playgrounds and murals on the walls.
    • Very few of Klimt's paintings were done on canvases, as he preferred to paint murals.
    • Impossible to miss from the walls are the vast murals that adorn the sides of buildings in the Protestant and Catholic areas.
    • The walls of its entryway have murals depicting scenes honoring the Spanish and Mayan heritages.
    • She spent much of her time in the school's hallways creating murals on the walls.
    • About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
    • Saturn is one of the so called Black Paintings - murals Goya painted on the walls of his home near Madrid.
    • Throughout the twenties, his fame grew with a number of large murals depicting scenes from Mexican history.
adjectiveˈmyo͝orəlˈmjʊrəl
  • 1attributive Of, like, or relating to a wall.

    (似)墙的,与墙有关的

    a mural escarpment

    垂直的断崖。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Woven tapestry is one of the oldest and richest mural arts, and can be traced right back to the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Native North Americans.
    • A mural stairs leads to a series of small gardens also.
    • Carrà was born in Quargnento in 1881, at the age of twelve he left home to work as a mural decorator first at Valenza Po, and from 1895 in Milan.
    • Italian mural decoration was an appropriate interest for someone who had been brought up in Florence and had achieved international fame excavating the wall decorations of Assyrian palaces.
    • The practice of appropriating mural surfaces for esthetic purposes goes back, after all, in recent art history to the start of the 1940s.
    • He was a signwriter and housepainter by trade, admiring William Morris and Walter Crane and specialising in mural decoration.
    • Western classical mural columns were set on both sides of doors.
    1. 1.1Medicine Relating to or occurring in the wall of a body cavity or blood vessel.
      〔医〕(与)体腔壁(有关)的;发生在体腔壁内的;(与)血管壁(有关)的;发生在血管壁内的
      mural thrombosis

      血管壁血栓形成。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Additionally, mucinous cystadenocarcinomas often have papillary projections and mural nodules that may correlate with areas of malignancy.
      • The usual pattern of involvement is focal or diffuse plaques of thickened valvular or mural endocardium.
      • The small intestine had a 1.7-cm, firm mural nodule with intact mucosa but showed infiltrative growth into the mesenteric fat.
      • Systemic thromboembolism is a common complication of cardiac mural thrombosis.
      • It also predisposes to thrombosis, leucocyte adhesion, and mural smooth muscle proliferation.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus ‘wall’. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th century) the sense ‘placed or executed on a wall’ arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th century).

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