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Engraving   /ɪngrˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Engraving

noun
1.
A print made from an engraving.
2.
A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved.
3.
Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.  Synonym: etching.


Engrave

verb
(past engraved; past part. engraved or engraven; pres. part. engraving)
1.
Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.  Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch.  "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
2.
Impress or affect deeply.
3.
Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block.  Synonym: etch.
4.
Carve or cut a design or letters into.  Synonym: etch.



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"Engraving" Quotes from Famous Books



... so perfect that Secret Service was in an immediate uproar. Short of the Nazi effort, there has never been anything like it. A perfect duplication of engraving and paper identically the same. The counterfeiters have even evidently gone to the extent of putting a certain amount of artificial wear on the bills ...
— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... referred to individuals who have contributed to the book. To these contributors all, we here make acknowledgment of our debt to them for their cordial co-operation. For the wealth of photo-engravures which the book carries, we have given acknowledgment along with each individual engraving, for furnishing us with the photographic views of the war scenes and folk scenes of North Russia. Most of them are, of course, from the official United States Signal Corps ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... others will doubtless be less excellent than those who copy from Nature. To imitate imitators, is the way to depart too far from the great original herself. The latter copies of an engraving retain fainter and fainter traces of the subject, to which the earlier impressions bore so strong ...
— Essays on Various Subjects - Principally Designed for Young Ladies • Hannah More
... November 1896, must also be mentioned. Above all, I am glad to be able to express my gratitude to one of the editors of this series, Mr Gleeson White, without whose assistance this account would never have been commenced. The engraving of the iron grill-work is reproduced from Mr Starkie Gardiner's "Iron-work," Vol. I., by permission of the Science and Art Department, ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester - A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • Philip Walsingham Sergeant
... his art, he chose by preference, the most difficult, exact, and incorruptible vehicles—verse and engraving; and he aimed at adhering strictly to, and reviving, the traditional Italian methods, by going back to the poets of the stil novo, and the painters who were precursors of the Renaissance. His tendencies were essentially towards form; ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio


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