engraving

Roget category 558

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.1. Natural means

#558. Engraving

noun

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.

verb

engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch — bite, bite in — lithograph etc. n. — print.

adjective

insculptured^† — engraved etc. v.. [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary.

phrase

sculpsit [Lat.], imprimit [Lat.].

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