engraving

English

Decorative engraving (sense 1) on a watch

Engraving (sense 1) on a rock

Engraving of a poppy, from 1827, in the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, US) (sense 3)

Noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

(art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
Coordinate terms: drypoint, etching
Hypernym: intaglio
Hyponyms: copperplate engraving, line engraving, photoengraving, steel engraving
(countable) A print produced from an engraving.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
  He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:
  He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
(music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

Derived terms

wood engraving

Related terms

engrave
whittle
carve

Translations

the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface

Arabic: نَقْشْ‎ (ar) m (naqš)
Hijazi Arabic: نَقْش‎ m (nagš)
Armenian: փորագրություն (hy) (pʿoragrutʿyun)
Bulgarian: грави́ране n (gravírane)
Catalan: gravat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雕刻 (zh) (diāokè), 鐫刻／镌刻 (zh) (juānkè)
Czech: rytina f
Finnish: kaiverrus (fi), kaivertaminen
French: gravure (fr) f
German: Gravieren n, Stechen (de) n
Ido: grabo (io), grabado (io)
Italian: incisione (it)
Japanese: 彫刻 (ja) (ちょうこく, chōkoku)
Latin: caelātūra f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gravering m or f
Nynorsk: gravering f
Polish: rytownictwo n, grawerstwo n
Portuguese: gravura (pt)
Russian: грави́рование (ru) n (gravírovanije)
Spanish: grabado (es)
Swedish: gravering (sv) c

an engraved image

Armenian: փորագրություն (hy) (pʿoragrutʿyun), փորագրանկար (hy) (pʿoragrankar)
Bulgarian: гравю́ра (bg) f (gravjúra)
Dutch: gravure (nl) f or m
Finnish: kaiverrus (fi)
French: gravure (fr) f
German: Gravur (de) f, Stich (de) m
Ido: graburo (io)
Latin: caelāmen n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gravering m or f
Nynorsk: gravering f
Polish: grawerka f
Russian: гравю́ра (ru) f (gravjúra)
Swedish: gravyr (sv) c

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Spanish: ^{(please verify)} grabado (es)

Verb

engraving

present participle of engrave

Anagrams

gravening