ENGRAVING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Engraving

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪngrˈeɪvɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Engrave v. t. To deposit in the grave; to bury. (Obs.) "Their corses to engrave."

Engrave v. t. (past engraved; past part. engraved or engraven; pres. part. engraving)

To cut in; to make by incision. (Obs.) "Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave."

To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. "Like... a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel."

To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver. "Engrave principles in men's minds."

noun

Engraving n.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

That which is engraved; an engraved plate.

An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print. Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs.

See images of 'Engraving'

Etymology of 'Engraving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"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

More quotes...