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engraving
noun
1 engraving
A print made from an engraving.
Roget 554:
representation,
representment†;
imitation
etc.
19;
illustration,
delineation,
depictment†;
imagery,
portraiture,
iconography;
design,
designing;
art,
fine arts;
painting
etc.
556;
sculpture
etc.
557;
engraving
etc.
558;
photography,
cinematography;
radiography,
autoradiography [Bioch.],
fluorography [Chem],
sciagraphy†.
personation,
personification;
impersonation;
drama
etc.
599.
picture,
photo,
photograph,
daguerreotype,
snapshot;
X-ray photo;
movie film,
movie;
tracing,
scan,
TV image,
video image,
image file,
graphics,
computer graphics,
televideo,
closed-circuit TV.
copy
etc.
21;
drawing,
sketch,
drought,
draft;
plot,
chart,
figure,
scheme.
image,
likeness,
icon,
portrait,
striking likeness,
speaking likeness;
very image;
effigy,
facsimile.
figure,
figure head;
puppet,
doll,
figurine,
aglet†,
manikin,
lay-figure,
model,
mammet†,
marionette,
fantoccini†,
waxwork,
bust;
statue,
statuette.
ideograph,
hieroglyphic,
anaglyph,
kanji [Jap.];
diagram,
monogram.
map,
plan,
chart,
ground plan,
projection,
elevation
(plan)
626.
ichnography†,
cartography;
atlas;
outline,
scheme;
view
etc.
(painting)
556;
radiograph,
scotograph†,
sciagraph†;
spectrogram,
heliogram†.
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2 engraving
A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved.
Dutch: graveerkunst, graveren, etsen, cliché, drukplaat
Polish: grawerunek
3 engraving
Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.
synonym: etching.
Roget 558:
engraving,
chalcography†;
line engraving,
mezzotint engraving,
stipple engraving,
chalk engraving;
dry point,
bur;
etching,
aquatinta†;
chiseling;
plate engraving,
copperplate engraving,
steel engraving,
wood engraving;
xylography,
lignography†,
glyptography†,
cerography†,
lithography,
chromolithography†,
photolithography,
zincography†,
glyphography,
xylograph,
lignograph†,
glyptograph†,
cerograph†,
lithograph,
chromolithograph,
photolithograph,
zincograph†,
glyphograph†,
holograph.
impression,
print,
engraving,
plate;
steelplate,
copperplate;
etching;
mezzotint,
aquatint,
lithotint†;
cut,
woodcut;
stereotype,
graphotype†,
autotype†,
heliotype†.
graver,
burin†,
etching point,
style;
plate,
stone,
wood block,
negative;
die,
punch,
stamp.
printing;
plate printing,
copperplate printing,
anastatic printing†,
color printing,
lithographic printing;
type printing
etc.
591;
three-color process.
illustration,
illumination;
half tone;
photogravure;
vignette,
initial letter,
cul de lampe [Fr.],
tailpiece.
[person who inscribes on stone]
lapidary,
lapidarian.
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Polish: grawerstwo, grawerka
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