engraving 的定义
- 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.
engraving 近义词
carving of letters or design into something
更多engraving例句
- 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.