THESAURUS
surface
3-D, acreage, ankle-deep, apparent, appear, appearing, area, arise, bail out, bob up, border, boundary, breadth, break cover, break forth, break water, burst forth, circumference, clerestory, come, come forth, come out, come up, concrete, continuum, conventionalized, cortex, cortical, cover, covering, crop up, crust, cubic, cursoriness, cursory, debouch, depthless, dimension, dimensional, disembogue, dive, effuse, emanate, emerge, emptiness, empty space, envelope, epidermal, epidermic, epidermis, erupt, exomorphic, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, exterior, exteriority, external, extrinsic, extrinsically, extrude, facade, face, facet, feel, field, finish, flat, float up, flood negative, flood the tanks, fly up, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, fountain, fourth-dimensional, fringe, front, galactic space, gloss, go below, grain, granular texture, gush, impersonal, indentation, infinite space, integument, interface, interstellar space, issue, issue forth, jejune, jet, jump out, jump up, knee-deep, knub, leap up, legalistic, light, lineaments, materialize, measure, mere scratch, nap, no depth, no water, nominal, not deep, nothingness, nub, on the
surface, open, ostensible, ostensibly, out, outer, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outer space, outermost, outline, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, outwardly, pave, pedantic, peripheral, periphery, pile, pinprick, pit, plane, pock, pop up, proportion, proportional, protrude, protuberance, public, ridgepole, rig for diving, rind, rise, rocket, roof, roofpole, rooftop, roundabout, sally, sally forth, scratch, seeming, shag, shallow, shallow-rooted, shallowness, shell, shoal, shoaliness, shoot up, show up, side, skin, skin-deep, skyrocket, slight, slightness, space, space-time, spatial, spatial extension, spatiotemporal, sphere, spherical, spread, spring up, spurt, start up, stereoscopic, structure, stylized, submerge, superficial, superficial extension, superficiality, superficially, superficies, superstratum,
surface texture, tarmac, texture, thin, three-dimensional, to all appearances, top, top floor, top side, topside, topsides, tract, trivial, triviality, two-dimensional, unprofound, upleap, upper side, upshoot, upside, upspear, upspring, upstart, vault up, veneer, visible, void, volume, volumetric, wale, weave, woof
ROGET THESAURUS
surface
Exteriority
N
exteriority, outside, exterior,
surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.
Texture
N
texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture,
surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web,
surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.