What's the difference between texture and timbre?

Texture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of weaving.
  • (n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • (n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
  • (n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
  • (n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
  • (v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
  • (2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
  • (4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
  • (6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
  • (7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
  • (8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
  • (9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
  • (10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
  • (11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
  • (12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
  • (13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
  • (14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
  • (16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
  • (17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
  • (18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
  • (19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
  • (20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.

Timbre


Definition:

  • (n.) See 1st Timber.
  • (n.) The crest on a coat of arms.
  • (n.) The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two possible versions of any instrumental timbre differed in the physical information used in their synthesis.
  • (2) Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age were tested for their discrimination of timbre or sound quality differences in the context of variable exemplars.
  • (3) We know, don't we, instantly when under the tutelage of a good teacher, we feel it in the timbre of their voice, we can feel the subtle, invisible flow of their good intention.
  • (4) Spectral properties appear to play a much larger role than dynamic properties in imagery for musical timbre.
  • (5) Fundamental frequency, pitch, timbre, and melody were analyzed with computerized electroglottography and sonography.
  • (6) These results suggest that timbre is perceived more in absolute than in relative terms.
  • (7) For fundamental frequencies in the human pitch range, many realizable timbres have vowel-like perceptual qualities.
  • (8) At the launch of a report by the all-party parliamentary group on women, she also called for an inquiry into sexism towards female MPs in the media, as anecdotally they tend to attract "superficial criticism about what we wear or the timbre of our voice, rather than what we say".
  • (9) Six listeners were asked to indicate whether perceived grouping of 49 such sequences was based on pitch proximity, timbre similarity, or ambiguous percepts not dominated by either cue.
  • (10) Voice clinicians, as well as singers, always correlate the assessment of the singing voice to the vocal and corporal gestures that model singing, and among these parameters, especially timbre.
  • (11) A possible explanation of the observed vowel timbres lies in the dependence of the short-time amplitude spectra on phase changes.
  • (12) 3, 45-52 (1979)] demonstrated that timbre differences could also bring about segregation.
  • (13) (1) When two complex tones contain different harmonics, do the differences in timbre between them impair the ability to discriminate the pitches of the tones?
  • (14) Recent studies have investigated the structure of perceptual relations among musical instrument timbres by multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques.
  • (15) Previous reports have warned that tonsillectomy or uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) may alter patients' speech by increasing the amount of nasal resonance as well as by changing voice timbre due to enlargement of the vocal tract.
  • (16) In recognition memory tasks, a target tone always appeared in a fixed position in the sequences, and listeners were instructed to attend to either its pitch or its timbre.
  • (17) Experiment 1, through the use of the Garner classification tasks, found that pitch and timbre of isolated tones interact.
  • (18) Harmonic complex tones comprising components in different spectral regions may differ considerably in timbre.
  • (19) The musical quality of timbre is based on both spectral and dynamic acoustic cues.
  • (20) Left hemisphere damaged aphasic patients were more accurate for target timbres over phonemes; the reverse pattern was found in the nonaphasic right hemisphere patients.