open texture

noun

1. philosophy the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases

Example Sentences

For pa amb tomàquet, you want bread with a firm, but open texture.

From Los Angeles Times

The secret of a top-of-the-range burger is to handle the meat as little as possible, leaving it with the open texture achieved in a domestic kitchen rather than the heavily emulsified, toothpaste-tube texture of bargain frozen versions with their added fat.

From The Guardian

However, for all our English ware it is necessary to have two fires, for the following reasons: First, the necessity for getting a denser texture of the ware by submitting it to a strong heat, lest the glazes which are to be melted on their surface, and which thereby become very dense and most contractible, should not agree with the more open texture of the body, and should crack or craze when exposed to changes of temperature.

From Project Gutenberg

Spong′y, like a sponge, absorptive: of open texture, porous: wet and soft: drunken.—Set a sponge, to leaven a small mass of dough with which to leaven a large quantity; Throw up the sponge, to acknowledge defeat by throwing into the air the sponge with which a boxer is rubbed down between rounds: to give up any contest.

From Project Gutenberg

The loose open texture of these deposits renders them less retentive of moisture than the neighbouring morainal hills, and during the long hot summers all but the most deeply rooted of the trees that spring up upon them perished.

From Project Gutenberg