Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of engraving is as below...

Photomechanical :: Photomechanical (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving..

Chalcography :: Chalcography (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing..

Or :: Or (n.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots..

Presswork :: Presswork (n.) The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done..

Xylography :: Xylography (n.) The art of engraving on wood.

Engraving :: Engraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engrav.

Lithoglyph :: Lithoglyph (n.) An engraving on a gem.

Anaglyptograph :: Anaglyptograph (n.) An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed..

Grave :: Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving..

Scauper :: Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving..

Transfer :: Transfer (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone..

Insculpture :: Insculpture (n.) An engraving, carving, or inscription..

Enchase :: Enchase (v. t.) To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed..

Creux :: Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design..

Woodcut :: Woodcut (n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood..

Photo-engraving :: Photo-engraving (n.) The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process..

Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..

Vert :: Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right..

Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..

Random Fonts

Most Popular