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Half-tone   Listen
noun
Half-tone, Half tone  n.  
1.
(Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
2.
(Music) A half step.
3.
A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
4.
The etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.
Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving.






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"Half-tone" Quotes from Famous Books



... authoritative, practical, and easily found, and no effort has been spared to include all desirable details. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 topics covered in these references, and it contains 700 royal 8vo pages and nearly 500 superb half-tone and other original illustrations, making the most perfect Cyclopedia of ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... Breck Overture. For a moment, his lips had curled into a complacent little smile; the next minute, he had sucked in his breath sharply between his clenched teeth. In her excitement, Cicely had mistaken her distance; she had flatted by a full half-tone the final upper note, reducing the tonal climax of the overture to the ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

... Illustrated with thirty-two half-tone reproductions of scenes from the motion picture production, and a jacket with a portrait ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... men sat down. "'A Heart in Peril,'" he quoted; "'A Story by James Willis Archway. Illustrated by Murray Davenport. Page 38.'" He turned over the leaves, and disclosed some rather striking pictures in half-tone, signed "M.D." Two men and two women figured in ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens

... best work on the subject. The greatest aid to Parents, Teachers and all who wish the Bible Story in a simplified form. 168 separate stories, each complete in itself, yet forming a continuous narrative of the Bible. 762 pages, nearly 300 half-tone illustrations, 8 in ...
— The Wilderness Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis

... houses, which are a very different matter: the newspapers publish at various seasons of the year copious Apartment-House Directories, with innumerable half-tone illustrations of these more or less sumptious places. And these directories are competent commentaries on their subject. George Moore remarked, "With business I have nothing to do—my concern is with art." Except that I live ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

... In Mr. Linton's administration I furnished some very large and rather expensive half-tone engravings on the part of the association and they worked in very nicely. I don't know whether the association paid for them or whether he did. I think we divided the cost ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting - Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 • Various

... contains 212 pages with 3 full-page half-tone illustrations, and can be obtained at your dealers or from us, cloth bound, ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

... poetry. His subjects were commonplace enough. An interior with a figure or two in the middle distance, and a passage-way leading into a lighted background were sufficient for him. These formed a skeleton which he clothed in a half-tone shadow, pierced with warm yellow light, enriched with rare colors, usually garnet reds and deep yellows repeated in the different planes, and surrounded with a subtle pervading atmosphere. As a brushman ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Painting • John C. Van Dyke

... Handy, dictated a letter in the anteroom of Markley's office to a Kansas City plate-maker, inclosed fifty dollars as he passed the draft counter, and, as he swung by the post-office he mailed the Handy check with instructions to have ten photographic half-tone cuts made of the check and mailed back to ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White

... notes, a biography of both Omar and Fitzgerald, and a Poetical Tribute by Andrew Lang, together with a remarkable descriptive and comparative article by Edward S. Holden. Beautifully printed in two colors on deckel edge paper, with decorative borders, fourteen half-tone illustrations by Gilbert James, and a portrait of Fitzgerald. Gilt tops, attractively bound in cloth and gold, and each volume encased in a flat box with cover. Size, 5-1/4 ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner



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