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Engraving   /ɪngrˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Engraving

noun
1.
A print made from an engraving.
2.
A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved.
3.
Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.  Synonym: etching.


Engrave

verb
(past engraved; past part. engraved or engraven; pres. part. engraving)
1.
Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.  Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch.  "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
2.
Impress or affect deeply.
3.
Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block.  Synonym: etch.
4.
Carve or cut a design or letters into.  Synonym: etch.



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"Engraving" Quotes from Famous Books



... mentioning that 'nothing was talked of there except moving tables and spiritual manifestations.' (The writer was not a believer.) Even here, from the priest to the Mazzinian, they are making circles. An engraving of a spinning table at a shop window bears this motto: 'E pur si muove!' That's adroit for Galileo's land, isn't it? Now mind you tell me whatever you hear and see. How does Mrs. Crowe decide? By the way, I was glad to observe by the ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... and to Aunt Jane her silver cups. All the triumph of a humble life was symbolized in these shining things. They were simple and genuine as the days in which they were made. A few of them boasted a beaded edge or a golden lining, but no engraving or embossing marred their silver purity. On the bottom of each was the stamp: "John B. Akin, ...
— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall
... why an old engraving in my father's study crossed my mind. It represents the entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon; he is on an elephant which is glittering with precious stones. You must know it. Only, Alexander ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... great painter to the magistracy of Nuremberg tells us that his native city never gave him employment even to the value of 500 florins. At the same time his pictures were so meanly paid, that for the means of subsistence, as he says himself, he was compelled to devote himself to engraving. How far more such a man as Duerer would have been appreciated in Italy or in the Netherlands is further evidenced in the above-mentioned writing, where he states that he was offered 200 ducats a year in Venice and 300 Philips-gulden in Antwerp, if he would settle in either of those ...
— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies
... husband, good father, kind son, firm friend, industrious trader, or careful man of business. We know from other sources that he was no contemptible warrior, no mean architect or engineer. He might be an excellent artist, modelling in clay, carving rocks, and painting walls. His engraving of seals was superb. His literary work was of high order. His scientific ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns


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