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engraving

[ en-grey-ving ]

noun

  1. the act or art of a person who or thing that engraves.
  2. the art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed.
  3. the design engraved.
  4. an engraved plate or block.
  5. an impression or print from this.


engraving

/ ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ /

noun

  1. the art of a person who engraves
  2. a block, plate, or other surface that has been engraved
  3. a print made from such a surface


engraving

  1. An artistic print made from a metal plate on which an artist has cut a design with a graver or a small chisel. ( Compare etching .)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of engraving1

First recorded in 1595–1605; engrave + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Choose the color of the frame and bumpers, size of the grip, and even include a personal engraving.

The steel, finish, handle, and engraving can all be customized for the chef in the family.

Particularly exciting was a group of nine vues d’optique, detailed engravings perforated with small holes that come to life when lit from behind.

Using just a torch or a lamp from below, the paintings and engravings stay hidden.

Johanna Mueller’s “Jackalope,” a relief engraving that riffs on the fictitious hybrid proffered on postcards in the American West, embeds a small antelope inside a comparatively mammoth rabbit.

However, the poet faithfully defended his livelihood, insisting that engraving was a true art.

He famously said, “Painting is drawing on canvas and engraving is drawing on copper and nothing else.”

But engraving is a painstaking and laborious art that requires patience, precision and lack of whim.

It was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather than an herb.

We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the natives of interior Africa.

This the man did drawing his knife in the manner denoted by the dotted lines in the engraving.

The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.

The perfumer destined this engraving for the savant Vauquelin, to whom he was under obligations.

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