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Another word for engrave

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Verb

  1. To cut (a design or inscription) into a hard surface, especially for printing

      1. To cut into, as with a sharp instrument:
      2. To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.
      3. To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.
      1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
      2. A place of burial.
      3. Death or extinction:
      1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid, especially by coating the surface with wax or another protective layer and drawing lines with a needle and then using the acid to form the lines on the unprotected parts of the surface.
      2. To make or create by this method:
      3. To draw or write by cutting or scraping:
      1. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice:
      2. To divide by parceling out:
      3. To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting:
    See also:

    marks

  2. To produce a deep impression of

      1. To bring down (the foot) forcibly.
      2. To bring the foot down onto (an object or surface) forcibly.
      3. To cause to be dislodged by stomping the feet:
      1. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.
      2. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.
      3. To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.
      1. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.
      2. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.
      3. To impart a strong or vivid impression of:
      1. To affect strongly, often favorably:
      2. To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of:
      3. To mark or stamp with pressure:
      1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
      2. A place of burial.
      3. Death or extinction:
      1. To correct or set right; adjust:
      2. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
      3. To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
      1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid, especially by coating the surface with wax or another protective layer and drawing lines with a needle and then using the acid to form the lines on the unprotected parts of the surface.
      2. To make or create by this method:
      3. To draw or write by cutting or scraping:
    See also:

    marks

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Another word for engrave

Verb

  1. To impress deeply

      1. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.
      2. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.
      3. To impart a strong or vivid impression of:
      1. To correct or set right; adjust:
      2. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
      3. To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
      1. To bring down (the foot) forcibly.
      2. To bring the foot down onto (an object or surface) forcibly.
      3. To cause to be dislodged by stomping the feet:
    See also:

    mark

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  2. To carve letters, designs, etc. on a surface, as for printing

      1. A folded piece of absorbent material, such as paper or cloth, that is placed between a baby's legs and fastened at the waist to contain excretions.
      2. A similar piece of material, worn by incontinent adults.
      3. A pattern composed of small, regularly repeated geometric motifs, usually diamonds or lozenges, used to decorate a surface.
      1. An opening, as in the deck of a ship, in the roof or floor of a building, or in an aircraft.
      2. The cover for such an opening.
      3. A hatchway.
      1. To mark or shade with two or more intersecting sets of parallel lines.
      2. A pattern made by such lines.
      3. The symbol (#).
      1. To draw, engrave, or paint in dots or short strokes.
      2. To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.
      3. To dot, fleck, or speckle:
      1. A method of engraving a copper or steel plate by scraping and burnishing areas to produce effects of light and shadow.
      2. A print made from a plate engraved by mezzotint.
      1. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.
      2. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.
      3. To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.
      1. A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal.
      2. To shape or cut with a chisel.
      3. To cheat or swindle.
      1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
      2. A place of burial.
      3. Death or extinction:
      1. To set (a gem, for example).
      2. To set with or as if with gems:
      3. To decorate or ornament by inlaying or engraving.
      1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue:
      2. To follow (game) in order to capture or kill; hunt:
      3. To seek the favor or company of persistently:
      1. A figure or design carved into or beneath the surface of hard metal or stone.
      2. The art or process of carving a design in this manner.
      3. A gemstone carved in intaglio.
      1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
      2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
      3. To consume fuel:
      1. To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.
      2. To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.
      3. To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching.
      1. To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
      2. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
      3. To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
      1. A print produced by lithography.
      2. To produce by lithography.
      1. To cut into, as with a sharp instrument:
      2. To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.
      3. To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.
      1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid, especially by coating the surface with wax or another protective layer and drawing lines with a needle and then using the acid to form the lines on the unprotected parts of the surface.
      2. To make or create by this method:
      3. To draw or write by cutting or scraping:
    See also:

    carve

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Sentence Examples

  • He loved Marguerite Lecomte, and taught her to engrave as well as himself.

  • In some places wood-carving has been brought to considerable perfection; and native artists know how to engrave on metal both by etching and the burin.

  • In 1828 James Wilson (author of the article Ornithology in the 7th and Wilson 8th editions of the present work) began, under the title of Illustrations of Zoology, the publication of a series of his own drawings (which he did not, however, himself engrave) with corresponding letterpress.

  • The original drawings for this map had to be done with exceptional neatness, the draughtsman spending twelve months on that which he would have completed in four months had it been intended to engrave the map on copper; yet an average chart, measuring 530 by 630 mm., which would have taken two years and nine months for drawing and engraving, was completed in less than fifteen months - fifty days of which were spent in " retouching " the copper plate.

  • But evidence bearing on the Stone age in Africa, if the latter existed apart from the localities mentioned, is so slight that little can be said save that from the available evidence the palaeoliths of the Nile valley alone can with any degree of certainty be assigned to a remote period of antiquity, and that the chips scattered over Mashonaland and the regions occupied within historic times by Bushmen are the most recent; since it has been shown that the stone flakes were used by the medieval Makalanga to engrave their hard pottery and the Bushmen were still using stone implements in the 10th century.

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