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单词 engraver
释义
engraveen‧grave /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ verb [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINengrave
Origin:
1500-1600 grave ‘to cut’ (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
engrave
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyengrave
he, she, itengraves
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyengraved
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave engraved
he, she, ithas engraved
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad engraved
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill engrave
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have engraved
Continuous Form
PresentIam engraving
he, she, itis engraving
you, we, theyare engraving
PastI, he, she, itwas engraving
you, we, theywere engraving
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been engraving
he, she, ithas been engraving
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been engraving
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be engraving
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been engraving
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A heavy block of lead backing the engraved logo of a column I wrote regularly, decades ago at another newspaper.
  • It's an address engraved in my brain.
  • It had no numbers engraved upon it, only bare lines.
  • The 50 names are engraved on three granite tablets.
  • The heavy pressure of the pen made each line appear engraved.
  • The words could be engraved over the entrance to the Pentagon today.
  • When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving.
  • Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process.
word sets
WORD SETS
cross-hatching, nouncutaway, adjectivedesigner, noundrawing board, nounemblem, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounetch, verbetching, nounflowery, adjectivefluted, adjectiveherringbone, nounincise, verbinlaid, adjectivepaisley, nounpatterned, adjectiveplot, nounreticulated, adjectiveschema, nounscroll, nounsection, nounstyle, verbswirl, nountracing, nountracing paper, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The date was engraved on his heart.
· You can have your cork engraved with names and dates.· They engraved her name in gold and wrote on the plaque that she was the daughter of a king.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • The date was engraved on his heart.
1to cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etcengrave something on something Their names are engraved on a stone tablet.engrave something with something a pendant engraved with a simple design2be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart literary to be impossible to forgetengraver noun [countable]
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