Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tool used in engraving; a triangular rod of steel, of different widths, with a plow-shaped point, pushed forward to make a furrow on the surface of wood or metal that is being engraved.
- noun One who engraves; especially, an artist who produces ornaments, patterns, or representations of objects by means of incisions on a hard surface; specifically, one who produces such designs with a view to the taking from them of impressions in printers' ink or other pigment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
engraves - noun A
tool used in this process
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
- noun a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
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Examples
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For a time he followed these strange indications on the royal road to drawing, and on them, perhaps, he based to some extent the illustrations which he made for book-covers, together with Charles Keene, for Mr. Edmund Evans -- who, it may not be out of place here to repeat, now so well known as the engraver and publisher of
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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It may be said that it is unnecessary to give explicit directions about invitations, inasmuch as the engraver is the one ultimately responsible for the accuracy of these things.
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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The engraver is the medium by which art in the palace is conveyed into the humblest homes in the kingdom.
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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"As soon as I finished a cover and I wanted to save it I'd have to call the engraver and say, 'Please don't destroy that, send it back when you come to pick up the next delivery,'" he said.
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a word, the engraver was a man of a more common stamp -- more timid and more conventional than the painter.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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a word, the engraver was a man of a more common stamp -- more timid and more conventional than the painter.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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When Koerner fell in love with the amiable Minna and wished to marry her, he met with opposition in his own family, who thought that the 'engraver's mamsell' was not good enough for him.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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Minna and wished to marry her, he met with opposition in his own family, who thought that the 'engraver's mamsell' was not good enough for him.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Paris art "Claude Lorrain: The Draughtsman Studying Nature" exhibits preparatory drawings, large-scale landscape paintings and early sketches by the French painter, engraver and draughtsman.
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He was apprenticed to an engraver and studied drawing at the Royal Academy.
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