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engraving

/en-grey-ving/US // ɛnˈgreɪ vɪŋ //UK // (ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ) //

雕刻,雕刻品,雕刻术,蚀刻

Related Words

illustration插图,图解,图示,图例inscription铭文,题词,题记,题字etching蚀刻,蚀刻画,蚀刻术,蚀刻工艺lithograph平版印刷品,平版画,石版画,平版印刷woodcut木刻,木刻画,木刻版,木刻板impression印象,感觉,印象是scratch划伤,挠痒痒,刮擦,刮伤cutting切割,切削,切断,削减print印刷品,打印,印刷,打印出来的inscribing刻字,铭文,铭刻,题词chasing追逐,追赶,追捕,追究intaglio凹版画,凹版印刷,凹版,凹板mezzotint颜料,颜料的使用,颜料的使用方法chiselling凿岩,凿刻,雕刻,锲而不舍rotogravure凹版印刷,凹版印刷术,凹凸版画,凹凸版印刷photogravure照相制版,照相凹版,照相凹版印刷,照相凹版画blocking阻断,阻隔,阻塞,闭塞photoengraving照片雕刻,照片刻印,照片雕刻术,摄影雕刻dry point干点,干燥点,干枯点,干点的enchasing追加,追逐,追捕,追赶

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : the design engraved.
    • : an engraved plate or block.
    • : an impression or print from this.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncarving of letters or design into something
Synonyms
etching蚀刻,蚀刻画,蚀刻术,蚀刻工艺illustration插图,图解,图示,图例inscription铭文,题词,题记,题字lithograph平版印刷品,平版画,石版画,平版印刷woodcut木刻,木刻画,木刻版,木刻板blocking阻断,阻隔,阻塞,闭塞chasing追逐,追赶,追捕,追究chiselling凿岩,凿刻,雕刻,锲而不舍cutting切割,切削,切断,削减impression印象,感觉,印象是intaglio凹版画,凹版印刷,凹版,凹板mezzotint颜料,颜料的使用,颜料的使用方法photoengraving照片雕刻,照片刻印,照片雕刻术,摄影雕刻photogravure照相制版,照相凹版,照相凹版印刷,照相凹版画print印刷品,打印,印刷,打印出来的rotogravure凹版印刷,凹版印刷术,凹凸版画,凹凸版印刷scratch划伤,挠痒痒,刮擦,刮伤dry point干点,干燥点,干枯点,干点的enchasing追加,追逐,追捕,追赶

Examples

  • Using just a torch or a lamp from below, the paintings and engravings stay hidden.

  • Johanna 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.

  • 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.

  • We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the natives of interior Africa.

  • This the man did drawing his knife in the manner denoted by the dotted lines in the engraving.

  • The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.

  • The perfumer destined this engraving for the savant Vauquelin, to whom he was under obligations.

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