skeuomorph

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek σκεῦος (skeûos, “implement, tool, vessel”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”), modeled after zoomorph (“resembling an animal”) and phyllomorph (“resembling a plant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskjuːəmɔɹf/ enPR: skyo͞oʹə-môrf === Noun === skeuomorph (plural skeuomorphs) A design feature copied from a similar feature in another object, even when not functionally necessary. [from 1889] 1987, Alexander von Gernet, Peter Timmins, Pipes and Parakeets: Constructing Meaning in an Early Iroquoian Context, Ian Hodder, Archaeology As Long-Term History, page 37, One of the most striking examples of a skeuomorph is the aforementioned impaled bird motif which has the stem of a pipe thrust through the body of a duck or other bird, so that the mouthpiece protrudes from the bill. 2000, "skeuomorph", entry in Barbara Ann Kipfer, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, page 519, A decorative bow attached to a shoe is a skeuomorph of the laces once used to tie it; triangular shapes drawn below handles on pottery are skeuomorphs of the metal plates by which the handles on metal prototypes were attached; and the semicircular mark on the back of a teaspoon represents the broadening of the handle where it was soldered to the bowl when it used to be made in two pieces. ==== Synonyms ==== skiamorph ==== Derived terms ==== skeuomorphic skeuomorphism ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === skeuomorph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “skeuomorph”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.