ENGRAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does engraving mean? 

• ENGRAVING (noun)
  The noun ENGRAVING has 3 senses:

1. a print made from an engraving

2. a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved

3. making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

  Familiarity information: ENGRAVING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGRAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A print made from an engraving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("engraving" is a kind of...):

print (a picture or design printed from an engraving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "engraving"):

dry point (a print produced by dry point engraving)

etching (an impression made from an etched plate)

halftone (a print obtained from photoengraving)

line engraving; linecut (a print obtained from a line drawing)

steel engraving (an impression taken from an engraved steel plate)

wood engraving; woodcut (a print made from a woodcut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("engraving" is a kind of...):

plate (a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "engraving"):

copperplate; copperplate engraving (an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved)

etching (an etched plate made with the use of acid)

gravure (a printing plate used in the process of gravure)

halftone; halftone engraving; photoengraving (an engraving used to reproduce an illustration)

line block; line engraving; linecut (engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved)

steel engraving (engraving on a steel plate)

wood block; wood engraving; woodcut (engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

engraving; etching

Hypernyms ("engraving" is a kind of...):

printmaking (artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "engraving"):

steel engraving (the act of engraving on a steel plate)

aquatint (a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color)

Derivation:

engrave (carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block)

 Context examples 

Mr. Frederick Lynn has taken a seat beside Mary Ingram, and is showing her the engravings of a splendid volume: she looks, smiles now and then, but apparently says little.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen's seats in the kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished—pleasant sisters, a quiet mother, and an agreeable man himself—with the advantage of being tied up from much gaming at present by a promise to his father, and of being Sir Thomas hereafter.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She said "It is the only version of the declaration that does that, with the exception of an engraving from 1836 that derives from it. This is really a symbolic way of saying we are all one people..."

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning; and the kindness had perfectly answered.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)