engraving
the act or art of a person who or thing that engraves.
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.
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Choose the color of the frame and bumpers, size of the grip, and even include a personal engraving.
Tech gifts for your favorite fitness enthusiast | Claire Maldarelli | November 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe 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.
In Los Angeles, a new museum celebrates the art of moviemaking | Courtney Lichterman | October 28, 2021 | Washington PostUsing just a torch or a lamp from below, the paintings and engravings stay hidden.
How wielding lamps and torches shed new light on Stone Age cave art | Jaime Chambers | July 6, 2021 | Science NewsJohanna 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.
In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge | Mark Jenkins | March 19, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the natives of interior Africa.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.This the man did drawing his knife in the manner denoted by the dotted lines in the engraving.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe perfumer destined this engraving for the savant Vauquelin, to whom he was under obligations.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
British Dictionary definitions for engraving
/ (ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ) /
the art of a person who engraves
a block, plate, or other surface that has been engraved
a print made from such a surface
Other words from engraving
- Related adjective: glyptic
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Cultural definitions for engraving
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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