She wore a thin gold band engraved with the initials O.
The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations these images are also called engravings.
When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving. Engraving Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the printed image William Hogarth The Enraged Musician 1741 Tate The design is manually incised into an engraving plate using a burin, an engraving tool like a very fine chisel with a lozenge-shaped tip. Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
It had no numbers engraved upon it, only bare lines. engrave ( third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved ) ( transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
Engraving The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving That which is engraved an engraved plate.
The words could be engraved over the entrance to the Pentagon today. Engraving An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material a print.
The 50 names are engraved on three granite tablets.
A heavy block of lead backing the engraved logo of a column I wrote regularly, decades ago at another newspaper.
Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process.
The heavy pressure of the pen made each line appear engraved.
engrave something with something a pendant engraved with a simple design 2 → be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart - engraver noun → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus engrave This means that the surface instantly absorbs enough energy to change from. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Design, Visual ldoce_084_a engrave en‧grave / ɪnˈɡreɪv / verb 1 AVD to cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etc engrave something on something Their names are engraved on a stone tablet. Laser engraving is a process that vaporizes materials into fumes to engrave.